What a Way to Go

i met a man out on a bridge pier he said he's gonna jump to save his soul i said what's the world done to make you mad man he said sit down son now here's the dope i can't find work 'cause i'm a blind man i can't see but sometimes i can see the light now is my life a labor of love or is my life a love of labor i still got a hollow feeling in my life what a way to go what a way to go what a way to go what a way to go i met this girl her name escapes me said son i'd love you to be my man she wrote her name out on a dollar i spent that dollar on a shot of jim spent it on a shot of jim i talked him down and then i walked off i turned around and he was gone himself a mile down the road it came upon me it was me i talked off that ledge it was me i talked off that ledge it was me i talked off that ledge what a way to go what a way to go what a way to go