'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind.
When we meet again;
Introduced as friends;
Please don't let on that you knew me when;
I was hungry and it was your world.
I looked at my watch;
I looked at my wrist;
I punched myself in the face with my fist
Boys in the street beginning to play;
Girls like birds flying away
My love she speaks like silence
Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull,;
He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull.
Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand,;
And rivers that ran through ev'ry day.
Well, I asked for something to eat;
I'm hungry as a hog;
So I get brown rice, seaweed;
And a dirty hot dog
There's always some new stranger sneakin' glances,;
Some trigger-happy fool willin' to take chances
Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came.
If your mem'ry serves you well,;
You'll remember you're the one;
That called on me to call on them;
To get you your favors done.
he not busy being born, Is busy dying
I got nothing left to burn
We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex,;
It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects.
And the dirt of gossip blows into my face,;
And the dust of rumors covers me.
The drinks are ready and the dogs are going to war
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.
I'm hungry and I'm irritable;
And I'm tired of this bag of tricks.;
At one time there was nothing wrong with me;
That you could not fix.
Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
We never thought we could ever get old
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore;
You may not see me tomorrow.
Guess it's too late to say the things to you;
That you needed to hear me say.
take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Time is all I have to give
I gotta go;
Find out something only dead men know
I believe in the impossible, you know that I do
I was in a whirlwind, now I'm in some better place.
People disagreeing everywhere you look,;
Makes you wanna stop and read a book.
