Howling Like a Wolf

(from the CDs Nails and Crosses and An Angel Somewhere)

Pleased to meet you Billy Blue
My name's Johnny Boy to you
It's my pleasure to shake your hand
I'm a man of many words
Most of them absurd
I'm a man without a print of any plan
I've been around the world
I've kissed a thousand girls
Kissed a thousand
Missed a thousand more
Cried a million tears
Lived a million years
But why I did
I'm not so sure.

And you go howling
Howling like a wolf into the night
Howling; you go howling
Howling like a wolf into the night.

The woman of your dreams
Is always out of reach
Standing by the river on the other side
She beckons and she waves
She shimmies on your grave
But the river is so deep and oh so wide
But there's nothing you can do
But to keep on pushing through
Looking for a goldmine
Looking for a friend
You've fallen on your face
You've been hounded in disgrace
But still you're going to reach her
In the end.

There's a land of happy endings
Right around the bend and there's
A place where dreams come true cross the sky
There's a heaven here on earth
But we don't know what its worth
But we do the best we can until we die
And you deal your final card
And you say "That weren't so hard"
And you hang there like a Christ
Upon the cross
So we come and so we go
Like a sudden summer snow
Nothing's gained but then again
There's nothing lost.