A cold shallow moon casts a shadow of delight
As I see this captive station is going down with might
The fires growing higher with every step I take
The enemies are rampant so I run for the lake

Staring down the barrel of a forty-five
I don’t know quite what to do or how to stay alive
The man sitting next to me, his eyes are full of fright
He’s asking the lord if He might save him tonight

It’s a sticky situation
And no one can relate
It's a sticky situation
And no one can relate
It's a sticky sticky sticky situation
And no one can relate
Unless they’ve been captive at the prison by the lake
The sound of the silence, it brings me to my knees
Just like the thought of that forty-five staring down at me

That cold shallow moon that once gave me delight
It’s turned an eerie red and now I cant see the light
The warden has it out for me, I’m the one he wants
I’ve been taking time and money, been laying on his lawn

I try to run away as they send out the hounds
I figure I should give up as they know these here grounds
I see another man who has tried to break free
Is this person real or am I talking to me?

It’s a sticky situation
And no one can relate
It's a sticky sticky sticky situation
And no one can relate
It's a sticky sticky sticky situation
And no one can relate
Unless they’ve been captive at the prison by the lake
The sound of the silence, it brings me to my knees
Just like the thought of that forty-five staring down at me

It’s been a long and winding road and the moon has left my sight
The darkness surrounds me and the sun don’t shine so bright
My time here has run out, I can’t do it anymore
I don’t know when this gon’ end, got to leave this prison war

I’m mortified at how my freedom has been chained
I can’t find the ball because I’ve thrown it out the way
These towering walls that I’ve been in so long
They finally tumbled down so I had to write this song

It’s a sticky situation
And no one can relate
It's a sticky sticky sticky situation
And no one can relate
It's a sticky sticky sticky situation
And no one can relate
Unless they’ve been captive at the prison by the lake
The sound of the silence, it brings me to my knees
Just like the thought of that forty-five staring down at me