The Unforgiven - Robert Tepper

Well, I was down in my old neighborhood

Where the wood turned to stone

And the place that I used to live

Is now a savings and loan

My friends and I would walk the shadows

We dance in dead end streets

We were the human chain gang

We were destined for defeat

We were

Always the unforgiven

Always the unfortunate ones

Always the unforgiven

Someday we gonna face the sun

That’s right

Jimmy he had a natural gift

The way he handled a glove

And Billy he could sing a tune

Make you fall in love

And Judy made her own clothing

And Sally drew a vein

What was not God given

Was washed out with the rain

We were

Always the unforgiven

Always the unfortunate ones

Always the unforgiven

Someday we gonna face the sun

Those poor little rich kids

With their tarnished spoons

They come uptown on Friday nights

They’d try to play our tunes

They couldn’t steal our thunder, no

They didn’t have a chance

We were much too serious

We were moving away too fast

The unforgiven

And daddy

He’d be gone for weeks

But sometimes he come around

And tell me the places he’d been

But never where he was bound

Yeah

Always the unforgiven

Always the unfortunate ones

Always the unforgiven

Someday we gonna face the sun

The unforgiven

The unforgiven

Someday we gonna face the sun

The unforgiven

The unforgiven

Always the unfortunate ones

Someday we gonna face the sun