Dead Man Walking the Charles

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Reviewed lyrics for Dead Man Walking the Charles.

Well, the moon came up crooked Over old Route

9 I got a bottle full of nothing and

a guy who countin' time There's a red glow

on the water, cold wind through the pines And

I'm walkin' toward that city that done buried what

was mine

Got mud on my boots, radiation in my rain

Pocket full of bottle caps and a head full

of pain Every road says Boston, every memory says

Rome Ain't no road behind me since the world

came undone I'm a dead man walking the Charles

tonight On a diamond city's piston light Got whiskey

in my blood, got the wasteland in my bones

And every mile I wanna take my father from

my home I'm a dead man walking, ain't nobody

calling my name 200 years gone by, but the

hurt still feels the same

Met a trader down in Quincy, had a shotgun

and a grin Said, you look like you've been

somewhere smart, man, wouldn't have been I said, brother,

I've been everywhere, the guy I forgot to save

I slept beside the highways, I drank beside the

graves He poured me something, homie, burned like fire

Going down, said that a kill was chasing you

I said, not what follows me around

Not what follows me around

Saw a woman down in Good Neighbor Singing underneath

red light Boy, sounded like forgiveness In the middle

of the night I laid three counts upon the

bar Said whiskey'll make it too She looked straight

through this old fool Like the dead sometimes will

do She sang about tomorrow I drank about yesterday

Somewhere around midnight We both ran out of things

to say I'm a dead man walking the Charles

tonight On the Diamond City's distant light Got whiskey

in my blood, got that wasteland in my bones

World got burned to ashes but somehow survived the

pain There's a vault door somewhere behind me There's

an empty bed below There's a name I keep

remembering That nobody here would know There's a fold

on a graph gone yellow And a house that

ain't there now Funny how the world keeps turning

when you don't remember how

Past a pack of ferals screaming by the old

mass pack at dawn Saw Brotherhood Bird burn till

the morning carried on Saw a farmer planting tattles

where the dead once filled the ground Guess the

commonwealth keeps living whether I'm here or not around

So I pulled my coat around me, took the

last pull from my ride If this wasteland wants

to kill me, well, it's gonna have to try

I'm a dead man walking the Charles tonight Got

the whole damn commonwealth inside Got whiskey in my

blood, got that wasteland in my bones Maybe every

road I'm walking ain't supposed to lead me home

I'm a dead man walking, but I'm walking just

the same Let the red storm roll behind me

Let the devil learn my name

you