You can dream until your bed is broken
Cry until you drown
Speak till every word you’ve spoken, just goes round and round
But there’s sirens in the air tonight
And a body they can find
You could go to jail forever now, and forever is a long, long time

Forever is a long,long time, boy
Forever is a long time

Little black bird seen what you done
But he wont tell on you
Another man seen you wave that gun and
You got a rid of him too
Thunder claps above your head and
The clock keeps tickin time,
Nothin’ but bars, a bowl and a bed
Forever is a long long time

forever is a long,long time,Boy
forever is a long, long time

and I said this before
I mean it even more this time…

The county line is a mile, walkin’ I suggest you run,
One hundred years of stripes and workin’ don’t sound too much fun
why’d you go and do it Did the devil wreck your mind?
Luck can’t pull you through it now
Forever is a long, long time