Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done 
You should've never have been playing with a gun 
In those Complicated Shadows 
Well there's a line that you must toe 
and it'll soon be time to go 
but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows 
All you gangsters and rude clowns 
Who were shooting up the town 
When you should have found someone to put the blame on 
Though the fury's hot and hard 
I still see that cold graveyard 
There's a solitary stone that's got your name on 

You don't have to take it from me 
But I know what I spake 
You think you're like iron and steel 
But iron and steel will bend and break 
In those Complicated Shadows 

Go! 

Sometimes justice you will find 
Is just dumb not colour-blind 
And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in 
All those phantoms and those shades 
Should Jump up on Judgement Day 
And say to the Almighty "I'm still stinking of sin" 

But the jury was dismissed 
Took his neck and they give it a twist 
So you see you won't be missed in those Complicated Shadows 

You can say just what you like in a voice like a John Ford film 
Take the law into your hands 
You will soon get tired of killing 
In those Complicated Shadows 
Complicated Shadows 
Complicated Shadows 
Complicated Shadows 

Go! 

Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done 
You should've never have been playing with a gun 
In those Complicated Shadows 
Well there's a line that you must toe 
and it'll soon be time to go 
but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows 
All you gangsters and rude clowns 
Who were shooting up the town 
When you should have found someone to put the blame on 
Though the fury's hot and hard 
I still see that cold graveyard 
There's a solitary stone that's got your name on 

You don't have to take it from me 
But I know what I spake 
You think you're like iron and steel 
But iron and steel will bend and break 
In those Complicated Shadows 

Go! 

Sometimes justice you will find 
Is just dumb not colour-blind 
And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in 
All those phantoms and those shades 
Should Jump up on Judgement Day 
And say to the Almighty "I'm still stinking of sin" 

But the jury was dismissed 
Took his neck and they give it a twist 
So you see you won't be missed in those Complicated Shadows 

You can say just what you like in a voice like a John Ford film 
Take the law into your hands 
You will soon get tired of killing 
In those Complicated Shadows 
Complicated Shadows 
Complicated Shadows 
Complicated Shadows 

Go! 

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