Knocked Off The Horse - Hellbound Glory

Just out of rehab, he’d been twenty-eight days clean

A genuine, certified recovered dope fiend

Just when we thought he’d put that drug all in his past

He walked on down to Broadway, and that boy done relapsed

Huh, I just had a laugh

You get knocked off that horse, you get back on again

Just the way it is, hey, and the way it’s always been

No moral to the story, yeah, it’s just got an end

You get knocked off that horse, you get back on again

Buddy of mine got busted on a charge of possession

All the time he served, you woulda thought he’d learned himself some sort of

lesson

But he walked right out of jail into a shootin' gallery

And now he’s servin' seven years on a second felony

Ain’t that just like a junky?

You get knocked off that horse, you get back on again

Just the way it is and the way it’s always been

No moral to the story, yeah, it’s just got an end

You get knocked off that horse, you get back on again

They found him facedown in a needle and a spoon

Picked him up and dropped him off at the emergency room (See ya later, buddy!)

They all knew our friend, he was DOA

He rode off t’ward that sunset with a smile on his face

Ain’t that just like a John Wayne?

You get knocked off that horse, you get back on again

Just the way it is, hey, and the way it’s always been

No moral to the story, yeah, it’s just got an end

You get knocked off that horse, you get back on again

Aw, ride on!