Only Man In Leavenworth

I don't hear no trains

I mark time by the falling of the rain

I got no company except for the hand that feeds

The meal plate under my door

I ain't the last, ain't the first

But I'm the only man in Leavenworth

Floor of earth, walls of stone

A man lives as he dreams: all alone

The darkness of my days seems so far away

From the green, green grass of home

I know I ain't the first

But I'm the only man in Leavenworth

Every man must fall

The story's been scratched on these walls

The words that I read are the desperate pleas

Of the man put here before me

I ain't the last, ain't the first

But I'm the only man in Leavenworth

This whole world ain't what it seems

I try to sleep but I always dream

Of the day when these chains and the falling of the rain

Are put to rest with me in a deep dark grave

From death to birth

I'm the only man in Leavenworth