Simple Man -

I left my hometown

Went back to basics

I had no friends

Now what a shame

I wrote my mother nearly every day

She didn’t write back, not a page

I tore the place down

I tore the place down

And I hope you’re gonna come back someday

I can’t go on living this way

I’m a simple man, I live afraid

I built my homestead, mostly made of wooden planks that I had found

I wrote my girlfriend but she just left me

And only served to make me feel down

I tore the place down

I tore the place down

And I hope you’re gonna come back someday

I can’t go on living this way

I’m a simple man, I live afraid

Tore the place down and you don’t mind

It only made it easier for me to find

And that was just the summer

Now you’ve got up and you’re gone

I tore the place down the other day

It only made it easier for me to stay

And that was just the summer

Now you’ve got up and you’re gone

Oh now

Hope you’re gonna come back someday

I can’t go on living this way

I’m a simple man, I live afraid