Reverend James Elmore Jenkins - Yearnin' for Bones Lyrics

Yearnin' For Bones
Ain't starved enough to die
Too empty to sing
Too lonesome to cry
Yearnin' For Bones
I only hear the sounds of pain
I don't recognize your voice
Or the sound of my own name

Cause it's a hard road now
Got to take it day by day
They told me not to do it
But I did it anyway

Yearnin' For Bones
Nobody hears a word I say
It's too late for sympathy
Too late too pray
Yearnin' For Bones
Going down the path beaten trail
No feeling could describe it
No words could tell the tale

Cause it's a hard road now
Did you hear what I say
They told me not to do it
But I did it anyway

Yearnin' For Bones
No loved one for me to cleave
I'm in a place that I can't stay
But I got no way to leave
Yearnin' For Bones
I'm on the fringes of the night
The dawn can't rescue me
All hope is out of sight

Cause it's a hard road now
Did you hear what I say
They told me not to do it
But I did it anyway