Born Astray - Balto

A dream a dying flame

My brain is tinder to the spark

Just waiting for the day to start

It’s somewhere in your dress

Your breath, and words down in the dark

I loved you but I’m long gone

It sure was getting hard

To see you in the dawn

Glowing with your love song

Staying up afraid

I’d go away some day

And knowing it ‘aint far off

I was born a Gambler

I was born astray

And I been playing hands lord

That I can’t sustain

Another morning breaks

My train’s the six, I go uptown

Thought I saw you there in the crowd

My friends all sitting round

In town for tall tails and a drink

I keep slipping off to lean on the sink

Cuz I can feel you in my blood

In the tatters of my lungs

Are you somewhere underneath the sun?

Did you catch another’s eye

Are you slipping past the line

You know I was a waste of time