I was spat cold and blameless Into endless white light Screaming and bloodsoaked Like a murder at night Born into creation Like a maggot in meat I washed up in Sacramento Where for a while, life was sweet ♪ They say that I broke the law But I've never done wrong So I fled like a lover From a bitter torch song I struck out toward the wastes Knowing I'd never return The cops barred my passage With the fire of their guns ♪ I was adrift in a sea Of ancient green pines Unshaped and unguided Like ore in a mine I fell in with a drifter From up in Alaska We wandered out east Through the Sierra Nevadas