[Intro] [Verse 1] I know the road I mean to walk — I've walked it in my head. Then I wake up on a different one, and I'm walking that instead. There's a man in me who means it — swears he's turning over new — and there's another one who runs the show, and I can't tell you which is true. [Chorus] Wretched man — who's gonna pull me out? Two hands on the same wheel, draggin' me both ways at once. The thing I hate's the thing I do, the thing I want I c-can't — somebody get me out... of me. [Verse 2] It wasn't the devil made me do it — I can't hand it off that clean. It was my own two hands that did the thing, and my own two eyes that seen. I've got the law of God inside me and a mutiny below — and every morning I re-enlist, and every night... I go. [Chorus] Wretched man — who's gonna pull me out? Two hands on the same wheel, draggin' me both ways at once. The thing I hate's the thing I do, the thing I want I can't — somebody get me out... of me. [Bridge] Then who? Who reaches in the wreck and hauls the drownin' clear? Not the man. The man can't. The man's the one who sank. But there's a Name I almost forgot to shout down here — (quiet, breaking) thanks be to God. Thanks be to God. [Bass Solo] [Final Chorus] [scream] YEAAAH — Wretched man — but I'm not left out! Somebody grabbed the same wheel and He turned it right around. The thing I hate still hunts me — but it don't run the show — somebody got me... out of me. [Outro] (spoken, wrung out) Still a mess. (beat) But I'm His mess now.
