You can't work an honest day if you never see the sun
If there's a job to do, it's a job that I'll get done

I can't say I've ever really been shy of the steel
I learned to blow my way right out of any gone-wrong deal
I've got it it my veins, you'll never break the seal

And I won't defend my twisted sense of obligation
If there's a job to do, it's a job that I'll get done

The way that it is now is how it's always been
You get frozen and then you float free again
The women and men who you get tied up to
They get tired of you and you float on through

Every night I fall into the same old cold-bed dream
I'm walking like a free man in the sand beside the sea
I'm not tied to nothing there and nothing's tied to me

Just some sister of a cousin of a Rockefeller's son
Oh, then I wake up on that gun
If there's a job to do now, it's a job that I'll get done