John Zorn - The Ballad Of Hank Mccain

No one knows better than the king

Life's a filthy dirty game

Very very hard to win

No one knows better than the king

How to disregard the pain

Never, never let it in

No one knows better than the king

That an angry man goes blind

Knocks his head against the wall

No one knows better than the king

How it hurts a man to fight

That he's human after all

No one knows better than the king

What a desperate man may do

When it gets too hard to bear

No one knows better than the king

How to spit on the taboos

As they thought he'd never dare

No one knew better than the king

How to care for number one

How to take and never give

No one knew better than the king

That when all is said and done

That's the only way to live

No one knew better than the king

Just how angry you can be

When they cage you in with laws

No one knew better than the king

That a man who thinks he's free

knocks his head against a wall

No one knew better than the king

Just how bitter it would be

To be beaten after all

No one knew better than the king

They're the ones who fix the game

They're the ones with loaded dice

No one knew better than the king

That they'd get him all the same

And they made him pay the price