This young girl's gotten too old
To claim
Claim a clean soul
Lookin' over a field
Through the glaze of crack-lit windows
All my thoughts creep out
When the draft flows
In my head
Let's me cry
Cry these tears
These tears of lead
Let's me cry
Lovers, let yourselves be warned
That your hearts
Unless they're torn
Have hardly been born
Daddies, please don't leave them
They're more precious than
Your reason for going
Away
Hey
The kids want
They want you to stay
So I'm here
With my whiskey and my beer
And there's nothing in my life
That I don't fear
And there's nothing in my life


I fall out down
I have lots of getting out
And I've accumulated enough
Went through the years
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Tears of late
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ties that I'm broken






Oh, tears of lead
Oh, tears of lead
And so I'm here, my whiskey and my beer
There's nothing in my life that I don't fear
I'm full of doubt, I have lots to get it out
I've accumulated enough lead
Oh, tears of lead
And so I'm here, my whiskey and my beer
There's nothing in my life that I don't fear
There's nothing in my life that I don't fear