The Thing I Done

I roll like thunder

Go like dynamite

All flesh and bone, I come

Old death long by my side

In from the storm

This scornful breath about my tongue

Oh, the thing I done

I took my chances

Took what chance I got

Lord know, my hands is tied

This all-binding ancient blood

There flood my mind, images

Blinding as the sun

Oh, the thing I done

Can't tell my future

I can't tell my past

It's only eluding fate

That makes my journey's task

That weigh down upon me

Out on the run

Oh, the thing I done

The band are playing

Bathed in electrical light

But I'm all at sea away

Under the shade of that dark fright

Knowing I never had a chance

I come bound to all I done

You hear me singing

Know my time ain't long

Desirous, this song I bring

On these unresting bones

Long ways from home, I stumbled

Long, since time begun

Oh, the thing I done

Oh, the thing I done

Oh, the thing I done

Oh, the thing I done