Enter the Haggis - The Death of Johnny Mooring [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

On a day like any other day
The pavement turning red
Johnny laid down in the alleyway
Died with a song in his head

A long, long way from Spring Hill
In an unforgiving game
Came out with an eye for the spotlights
Looking for a place to make a name

So risk all, or don't risk anything
You can lose all the same

Johnny hit town on a windy day
One morning the fall
Couldn't smell the grass or the trees for the paper mill
Just another job and that was all

Every night looks like the next one
Every hotel in every town
Maybe in a smile he found variety
With a little rye to wash it down

When he played, he was an animal
With a bow and a roving eye
Moving like a man undone, incredible
Couldn't win, but he could try

That night he played like a warrior
Like he never had before
Maybe they were songs about a better life
Than the one he settled for

And by the time the night took Johnny
He'd won his soul and lost a war

Followed him out to the alleyway
With a blade he was taken down
He died so far from home and family
In an unfamiliar town

That night the sky had an open eye
He was left there in the rain
It washed his life to the shadows
Before it even made a stain

And Johnny took his last breath running
And never picked up a bow again