Dead To The World - Joe Henry

There’s a truck pulling up to the house next door

However, I’m dead to the world

There’s a hat blowing off of your head to the floor

Now I’m dead to the world;

On dirty old Dean Street the power is down

And too cold to dig a good hole in the ground

For the hope that we used to all pass around

I’m dead to the world

I came up a fighter I was quicker than blood

Now I’m dead to the world

Riding the rails and drunk on the flood

Now I’m dead to the world;

And I had a dream that nobody knew

To laugh with your last breath when you’re through

But now nobody knows any better than you

I’m dead to the world

Give me some sugar don’t talk so mean

I’m dead to the world

Ain’t nobody knows all the glory I’ve seen

Now I’m dead to the world;

And you loved me best with no promise to keep

And no way to hear what I shouldn’t repeat

My mouth full of gold and no weight on my feet

And dead to the world