Hazard

  Hazard

"My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven


Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes


That boy's not right ...


Three years ago when I came to know Mary


First time that someone looked beyond the rumours and the lies


And saw the man inside ...


We used to walk down by the river


She loved to watch the sun go down


We used to walk along the river


And dream our way out of this town ...


No one understood what I felt for Mary


No one cared until the night she went out walking alone


And never came home ...


Man with a badge came knocking next morning


Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly


Pointed right at me ...


I swear I left her by the river


I swear I left her safe and sound


I need to make it to the river


And leave this old Nebraska town


I think about my life gone by


And how it's done me wrong


There's no escape for me this time


All of my rescues are gone, long gone


I swear I left her by the river


I swear I left her safe and sound


I need to make it to the river


And leave this old Nebraska town ..."

Richard Marx Hazard