You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.