hey, he's a desperate saint
he's a law abiding minute man
who cannot be blamed

he got a title, up from under a grave
he walks beside 'em all the time and remembers his fate

he eats a chewed up shoe because that's what you do
when you're entitled and a child, and got nothing to do
you get the same thing twice and that's okay
never doing nothing and got nothing to pay

he says the same thing twice but what can you say
in the same way begging at your leg every day
it's okay that you cry, but not all the time
so tell me goodbye with that glazed look in your eye

hey, he's a desperate saint
he gotta little something extra that he might have to say
he walks a narrow grove home, it's always the same
talking to the TV when there's no one around
walking through the movie, but there ain't no sound

he's always preaching what he's meaning on the concrete ground
living like he outta with the dogs and the hounds
he goes deeper down the hole inside the yellow wall
thrown against the wall sometimes in spite of it all

he drops the ball again but no one cares
he does the same thing twice then rips up the spares
he got nothing to give and nothing to prove
just beating along by the same old groove

he just walks and wiggles and everybody stares
he moves on over with a desperate flair

hey, he's a desperate saint
he got that big ass chicken leg in the back of his mind
he rings the same bell twice for the second damn time

hey, he's a desperate saint
he never stumbles, but he mumbles from the side of his face

hey, he's just a desperate saint
mighty desperate saint
he does some good, but he should step aside in it's wake
it's understood
that the burden of proof
is beyond what your calling for
it ain't the truth

he's not to blame
but he would and he could
change the game
in his name
it would cost him the goods
and start again
from that starting place
where his preaching got a-teaching
because his mind was erased

hey, he's a desperate saint
the tao of living now is his mantra again
at your shoes so confused by the hatred and pain

hey, he's a desperate saint
it's not the player just the game, so take me away
he wrecked it all but installed a meaning to fame

hey, he's a desperate saint
doing good like he should, with no one to blame
if he could, but he would start naming names

cheers to a desperate saint
going up, going down
is it something you say
hey, he's a desperate saint
I don't know but I wonder
if it's something you ate
he's a desperate saint
walking tall with nothing at all
he begs everyday
he walks the same old way
he says the same old phrase
hey, he's a desperate saint
he begs us everyday
is it something you say
hey, he's just a desperate saint