Some Early Morning - Dan Tyminski

It was late one night in the heart of town I was drinking all alone

Ran out of cash when I paid my tabs so I headed home

The night was black, the air was thick as I wandered passed a barn

Then a shot came out and I heard a scream beside me in the dark

Afraid that maybe I’d be next I started to run

Just as fast as my feet would go into the barrel of a gun

The lawman’s light was blinding me he said why’d you do it son

Two weeks later in the criminal court I was up on murder one

Maybe some early morning in a pasture of green

Beside the still water I’ll awake from this dream

This terrible dream

Well I sat there in the courtroom as the tears ran down my face

A guilty man is free somewhere and they put me in his place

The jury ran the verdict and the judge called out my name

He said young man you’ll spend your life wearing the ball and chain

I’m staring at the ceiling as I lay here on my bed

Fourteen long and lonely years it’s where I laid my head

Behind these cold gray prison walls time sure passes slow

And I guess if I die tomorrow I’d still got a life to go

Maybe some early morning in a pasture of green

Beside the still water I’ll awake from this dream

This terrible dream

A man who’s lost his vision will live and die alone

In the cold walls of this prison my heart has turned to stone

The lights are growing dimmer as I take my final breath

I can smell the air of freedom as I close my eyes in death

Maybe some early morning in a pasture of green

Beside the still water I’ll awake from this dream

This terrible dream