What a fool, what a laugh Pulled an unripe ever-after A bromide upon a disaster Less the pool, more the rapids Wreck of nerves for the bastard I thought that this might happen In the want of the wake Oh for mercy's sake I can't understand it Dug my hands in the ground Kept my head out the clouds But my mind just kept on rambling So I turned to my youth For a beacon of truth And I got back an answer I saw hands skimming lily pads So if I got nothing else Then I got that And that's enough To trudge Yeah that's enough To trudge Wide-eyed, braced and meek For some faceless, dreamt keeper I don't want to run things I just want to run Naked, wild, fast and free Where my name is my deeds Spit the tattered false gods from my teeth In the want of the wake Oh for mercy's sake I'm just meant to bear it Over ten years now Since I heard that sound Run on whiskey, grit, ink and daring Though the thorns sting their wrath And the coals burn my path I still sing with abandon 'Cause I saw hands skimming lily pads So if I got nothing else Then I got that And that's enough To trudge Yeah that's enough To trudge Looked them right in the eyes With spit shine and I lied But the bigger crime is I believed it Don't know I swear, there's a man in there Half watched with a wince And a hand on his brow I haunt all the dilettantes He's the ghost whisper to get out Can't call him a bastard When I'm a liar And I'm a liar when I build Upon ground I give Can't begin to explain The cost of bearing this name It's more than I prepared for Over two years now Since I wrote this down Laugh with blood and goddamn abandon And that's enough That's enough To trudge Yeah that's enough To trudge