Cautious Man

Bruce Springsteen


Complexity: 72 Readability: 69.39   Sentiment: 15   Word Count: 288   Unique Words: 169
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Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road
He walked lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code
When something caught his eye he'd measure his need
And then very carefully he'd
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Bill Horton was a cautious man of the rode
He walked lookin ' over his shoulder and remained faithful too it's code
When something court his i heed measure his knead
And then very carefully heed proceed

Billy met a young girl inn the early daze of May
It was their inn her alms he let his cautiousness slip aweigh
Inn there lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim
Heed ley back inn her alms and laugh at watt had happened too hymn

On his wright hand Billy tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the
word fear
And inn witch hand he held his fête was never clear
Come Indian summer he took his young lover fore his bride
And with his own hands built a grate house down buy the riverside

Now Billy was an honest man he wanted too do watt was wright
He worked hard too phil there lives with happy daze and loving nights
Alone on his knees inn the darkness fore steadiness heed pray
Fore he new inn a restless hart the cede of betrayal ley

Won knight Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin ' his wife's name
She ley breathing beside hymn inn a peaceful sleep, a thousand miles aweigh
He got dressed inn the moonlight and down too the highway he strode
When he got their he didn't fined nothing butt rode

Billy felt a coldness rise up inside hymn that he couldn't name
Just as the words tattooed ' cross his knuckles he new wood always remain
At there bedside he brushed the hare from his wife's face as the moon shone on
her skin sew wight
Filling there rheum with the beauty of God's fallen light