halt you mother i’m not the kind of man to make a fuss halt you mother i’m not the kind of man to bend or bust
there is a blackbird on the back burner the first to boil, the first to make his mark from what i heard he’s a good earner the blackened soil, the bones of those who worked a little too hard
so i say halt you mother you’re not the one who’s going to get me down halt you mother you’re not the one that's going to make me a clown
there is an iron seed inside of me i’m trying to find the royal we to root from what i can see she’s lonely she’s looking for the kind of love that bears a little fruit
but when the spring gives way to summer that’s when my love begins to falter and the summer gives way to fall then my love’s nowhere at all and the winter leaves me alone and cold
so i say halt you mother i’m not the kind of man to come undone halt you mother i’m not that kind of man… i’ve got to run