The Wanderer

Johnny Cash

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    I went out walking through streets paved with gold,
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    lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones of a city without a soul.

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    I went out walking under an atomic sky,
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    where the ground won't turn, and the rain it burns
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    like the tears when I said goodbye.
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   Yeah, I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you,
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    I went wandering.

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    I went drifting through the capitals of tin,
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    where men can't walk, or freely talk, and sons turn their fathers in.

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    I stopped outside a church house, where the citizens like to sit,
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    they say they want the kingdom, but they don't want God in it.

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    I went out riding down that ol' eight lane,
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    I passed by a thousand signs looking for my own name.
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   I went with nothing, but the thought you'd be there, too,
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    looking for you.

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       I went out there in search of experience,
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    to taste and to touch and to feel as much
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    as a man can         before he repents.

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    I went out searching, lookin' for one good man,
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    a spirit who would not bend or break,
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    who would sit at his father's right hand.

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    I went out walking with a Bible and a gun,
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    the word of God lay heavy on my heart, I was sure I was the one.

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    Now, Jesus, don't you wait up, Jesus, I'll be home soon,
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    yeah, I went out for the papers, told her I'd be back by noon.
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   Yeah, I left with nothing, but the thought you'd be there, too,
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    looking for you.
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   Yeah, I left with nothing, nothing but the thought of you,
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    I went wandering.

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