I Am Crazy

i though i'd like to die where i was born

but i've been kicked out with no money

you said my voice sends shivers down (put splinters in) your spine

the sound of failure and cold water running

i tried to sleep but couldn't in the storm

i called for you but knew you wouldn't come

send me a remedy for this thing i'm feeling

i just can't sleep

dreams black and blue i am crazy

someday i know i'll fly away just like a sparrow

at night i go and walk out in the fields

my singing even makes the stones cry

i know you'll come back when you've had enough to eat

(you'll) hold me close like you might kill me

with a gun or a knife or a whip or a stone

bury me with five hundred others

but in the evening i'll still stand at your gate

you'll (just) see me and turn away