Strange World

I met a gravedigger, said what's your name stranger He said you're late for your funeral I met a preacher, said what can you do for me sir He said your soul is lost, so you better go ahead and move on I gave up the church, gave up my home, and I packed up my belongings, headed for the coast It is a dream that I had when I was a child, but now it's more than that, it's a lifestyle What, what a strange world What, what a strange world I met a whore on the corner, it sounds so cliche, but she brought me to my knees Where we both prayed, she said I was a little girl in Austin, my father had his way, so I come out here every night just trying to escape I went to her broken home, I saw a broke down bed, she said a hundred men have laid in it Not my lover said, she said this is who I am, it's who I'll always be I said you should stop for your sake, she said a girls gotta eat What, what a strange world What, what a strange world I woke to a smoke alarm, I felt the burning flames inside of a hotel, I can't recall the name, then I opened the door to the hallway for one final save in grace I got outside, I saw a fireman by and a woman screaming my daughter's still inside Then another came out holding that child all alone, he said someone get the coroner on the phone What, what a strange world What, what a strange world I came to in Reno, blinded by the lights of a million people marching to their deaths outside and a man on a soapbox preaching the end of the world, he said gather round my sheepish boys and girls I met a man in the alley, beckoning me to come, he said for a few dollars I'll change your life son, I said no thanks sir, said my goodbyes, he said come now boy everyone's got a price What, what a strange world What, what a strange world