VERSE 1|I've weathered the storm |I've made it through|I leave behind|My words to you |I played the wild rover|For too many years|A life dedicated to booze|I've lived on a castle on the top of the hill|laid my head in the gutters of hell|Wondered and roamed |till I found my next home|didn't know how to stand still||CHORUS|I'm battered and bruised|from these years of abuse|I'll keep raising hell till the end |I've been lost I've been found|but I'll never lie down |I'll go a rovin' again||VERSE 2|I wrote it all down so I could remember|This brain doesn't soak anymore|The days turned to nights and nights into years|I'm still sitting on the same stool|The early house visits that lasted for days|fighting 'bout who's the next round|When I finally part|Who will remember |the man they couldn't put down||CHORUS|I'm battered and bruised|from these years of abuse|I'll keep raising hell till the end |I've been lost, I've been found|but I'll never lie down |I'll go a rovin' again||VERSE 3|And as I look back|At my misspent years|I feel a tear in my eye|Thinking about how it all could have been|If I followed a road without Rye|A life of good times will catch up on you|But I've learned to live with myself|Early house drinking, being king of the world|are the days that I'll never forget.||CHORUS|I'm battered and bruised|from these years of abuse|I'll keep raising hell till the end |I've been lost, I've been found|but I'll never lie down |I'll go a rovin' again