JOHNNY CASH - The Wanderer LYRICS

THE WANDERER - U2 with Johnny Cash

(U2/Bono) written Gordan Lightfoot ??



I went out walking through the streets paved with gold

lifted some stones

saw the skin and bones

of a city without a soul

I went out walking under an atomic sky

where the ground won't turn

and the rain it burns

like the tears when I said goodbye

CHORUS

Yeah I went with nothing

nothing but the thought of you

I went wandering

I went drifting through the capitals of tin

where men can't walk

or freely talk

and sons turn their fathers in

I stopped outside a church house

where the citizens like to sit

they say they want the kingdom

but they don't want God in it

CHORUS

I went out with nothing

nothing but the thought of you

I went wandering

I went out walking

down that winding road

where no one's trusting no one

and conscience...a too heavy load

I went out riding, down that ol'eight lane

I passed by a thousand signs

looking for my own name

CHORUS

I went with nothing

but the thought you'd be there, too

Looking for you

I went out there in search of experience

to taste and to touch and to feel's as much

as a man can before he repents

I went out searching, looking for one good man

A spirit who would not bend or break

Who could sit at his father's right hand

I went out walking with a bible and a gun

The word of God lay heavy on my heart

I was sure I was the one

Now Jesus, don't you wait up

Jesus, I'll be home soon

Yea I went out for the papers

told her I'd be back by noon

Yeah I left with nothing

but the thought you'd be there too

looking for you...

Yeah I left with nothing

nothing but the thought of you...

I went wandering