I taste the led the letter read,

Was better said when it was shed,

I don’t want to follow I don’t want to lead,

I don’t want to bleed I don’t want to leave no seed in this world,

A friend of mine got sick of tryin’,

Gave up on living to settle on dyin’ dyin’ dyin’,

I saw him last night in my sleep,

He said nothin’ he just had a look that weeped,

Yeah he was broken down,

Yeah he was broken down,

Once upon a new day dawns,

Still I am, I’m withdrawn but not yet gone,

I don’t want to rise I don’t want to fall don’t want to appall,

I don’t want to crawl no more,

The lights that shine are clandestine a troubled sign,

Still I lie I’m fine fine fine,

As my hollow body escapes from bed to greet a world so broken and so misled,

Yeah he was broken down,

Yeah he was broken down,

He was broken down,

Yeah he was broken down,

He was broken broken down,

He spends these days under the ground,

Yeah he was searchin’ for what could never be found,

And it just kept pullin’ him, pullin’ him down,

Yeah and a shot was fired, that was the plan,

He was a boy, he was a man,

He tried to run and beat the gun,

But the bullet won and his days were done,

Yeah he was broken down,

Yeah he was broken down,

He was broken down,

Yeah he was broken down,

He was broken broken down,

He spends these days under the ground,

Yeah he was searchin’ for what could never be found,

And it just kept pullin’ him, pullin’ him down.

Pullin’ him down, pullin’ him down,

Pullin’ him down.

By
Steve Pollack