I recall once upon a time   Livin' was so easy and I felt so fine      But my, my, my right before my very eyes   Satan came with fire to burn me   Wouldn't listen when they warned me      A dagger in my back, she's calling me honey   Wouldn't stand back, for neither love nor money, oh yeah      Thirty minutes after my ship set sail   She put up a sign and my house began to wail      Why, why, why I couldn't see it in my little girl's eyes?   She had such a way to fool me, Lord a way to fool me      And I would ask the woman, "Can you find it in yourself   To please stand back? You ain't gonna rule me" Oh yeah      Just when all began to fade   I reached out and threw the Ace of Spades   Put her on a train to the Everglades      Now that it's all over and gone   Somehow I just don't feel so all alone      But, lie, lie, lie it seemed like such a waste of time   She did not ever seem to know me   Now it's much too late to show me      But, if I ever see that woman walkin' down the street   I'll just stand back and try to move away slowly, oh yeah