I keep you in the corner of my mind
Where I can find you
In the dark, in the bleak, in the real sad times
Yea, I don't need you lord-
When I'm doing fine
I'll go my own way
But I can't let you go, even when I try
And I try

I only call you when I'm losing
I only need you when I'm high and dry
Like a cigarette or the bottle, my friend
Thirsty at the river's end

Forgive me for my sins

I like the way it feels to burn in my pain
And then I wonder why your voice seems so far away
Like a pawn in the way of a check-mate
I keep you at arms length-

I only call you when I'm losin
I only need you when I'm high and dry
Like a cigarette or the bottle, my friend
Thirsty at the river's end

And I've tried to control it
I'm a slave to the flesh
And you know it
But you saved the worst parts of me
And now I've gotta learn what it means to be free

Thirsty at the river's end