You might have seen me ´neath the pool hall lights.
Well baby I go back each night.
If you got a throat I got a knife.
Steady rollin´, I keep goin´.

I don´t mind how quick the seasons change.
You know to me they´s every one the same.
The sweetest sunshine drips the drain.
Death´s comin´, I´m still runnin´.

Well I come from the old time baby,
too late for you to save me.
If I remain then I´m to blame.
But if you should ever need me,
I´ll go where´er you lead me.
It´s all the same, the same old game.

My lovin´ lady she´s a ball and chain.
I still can travel but my speed has changed.
I bring the money, I take the blame.
Steady rollin´, I keep goin´.

But I shot my wife today,
dropped her body in the Frisco bay.
I had no choice it was the only way.
Death´s comin´, I´m still runnin´.

Well I come from the old time baby,
too late for you to save me.
If I remain then I´m to blame.
But if you should ever need me,
I´ll go where´er you lead me.
It´s all the same, the same old game.

Out waltzin´ with the Holy Ghost,
from the Bowery to the Barbary Coast.
The land I´m from you know I love the most.
Steady rollin´, I keep goin´.

And everyday is just another town.
The more I search you know the less I´ve found.
Me, I´m a sucker, just a slave to sound.
Death´s comin´, I´m still runnin´.

Well I come from the old town baby,
where all the kids are crazy.
If I remain then I´m to blame.
But if you should ever need me,
I´ll go where´er you lead me.
It´s all the same, the same old game.