Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness lyrics

[Verse 1]
Well I felt like I was born today
So I took it upon me to go away
To gather my thoughts and go away
Where I could (be used by) somebody

[Verse 2]
Now over the hill, like always you know
Were Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe
And they beat and broke me hard and slow
To prove I was nobody

[Chorus 1]
And no-one I was and so I remained
Knocked-out in a hut, no mother, no name
And filled up my heart with one and the same
That grand dark feeling of emptiness

[Verse 3]
And was it a friend that turned me loose
Or was it a girl come to baste my goose
Or was it my great god who laid on his finger
And started my clock anew

[Chorus 2]
Ah no, it was rain; ah no, it was gunning
It was point-break and buckle and singing and cunning
That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running
And I never looked back from then on
[Bridge 1]
And now I am learning bit by bit
About the make and model sh*t
The muddy bowl I live in it
And all the mucks that tire us
And I'm afeared if I don't have
A piglet, lamb or little calf
I'll chop my humanness in half
And be as worm or virus

[Bridge 2]
But kids I've had, and they are sung
Upon folks' ears my babes are hung
Rhythmically they live among
And grow but don't get old
Not in a box, not in a void
Not if their voice is never heard
Nor if no-one repeats a word
But if their tune is told

[Outro]
Then we can age and fall away
To meet again some golden day
And fill it in our happy way
In starlight and in gold