On the blind side and down the back ways

The roots of sadness crawl,

When you can't get what you need

You feel like taking a torch to it all



All the sweet talk makes a bitter man

You can feel the darkness rise

Sometimes you don't know what you're fighting for

You don't know who it is you despise.



I am the Halleluiah Man

Break all the rules I'm the King of fools

I'm the renegade in this greytown

And I'll do anything to bring a government down

I am the Halleluiah Man

Yes my friends I've been born again

I'm the black sheep who while shepherds sleep

Will do anything to bring a government down



In a coat of a thousand colours

and a star spangled Cadillac

He picked up a rodeo queen

with whiplash marks all over his back



When dreams don't become their people

People become their dreams

He didn't understand at the time

But now he knows exactly what it means



I am the Halleluiah Man

Break all the rules I'm the King of fools

I'm the renegade in this greytown

And I'll do anything to bring a government down

I am the Halleluiah Man

Yes my friends I've been born again

I'm the black sheep who while shepherds sleep

Will do anything to bring a government down



They said watch out boy be careful where you tread

You're throwing away all that beautiful bread

He slept outside until the world opened up

They've got to understand he's a Halleluiah Man



He says I am the Halleluiah Man

And I'll do anything to bring a government down



He built himself a prison

He knew he had to escape

Some worlds are held together by steel

Some worlds are held together by sellotape



He was d