If You Only Knew

I drag my weary legs To the edge of town Pass through the bone yard stones And radio towers You don't know what a desperate man can do My poor mother If you only knew I haul my shadow down Into the woods And I head to the end of the line By light of the moon Now I've dug this hole so deep That it's caving in on me And it tears my insides out lying to you You don't know what a desperate man can do My dear lover If you only knew A lone dark silhouette Comes from the east And I head in from the west until we meet Down at the crossroads where we met My idle hands close around his neck And now I'm face to face with myself, on death row I'll bury this man without a prayer or headstone And my sweetest daughter You will never know If you only knew