When yer head gets twisted and yer grows numb When you think you're too old, too young, too or too dumb When yer laggin' behind an' losin' yer In a slow-motion crawl of life's busy No matter what yer doing if you givin' up If the wine come to the top of yer cup
If the wind's got you sideways with one hand on And the other starts slipping and the feeling is And yer train engine fire a new spark to catch it And the wood's easy findin' but yer lazy to it And yer sidewalk starts curlin' and the gets too long And you start walkin' backwards though you its wrong And lonesome comes up as goes the day And tomorrow's seems so far away
And you feel the reins yer pony are slippin' And yer rope is a-slidin' 'cause yer are a-drippin' And yer sun-decked and evergreen valleys Turn to broken down slums and trash-can And yer sky cries and yer drain pipe's a-pourin' And the lightnin's a-flashing and the thunder's And the windows are rattlin' and and the roof tops a-shakin' And yer whole world's and bangin'
And yer of sun turn to hours of storm And to you sometimes say "I knew it was gonna be this way Why didn't they me the day I was born?"
And you start chills and yer jumping from sweat And lookin' for somethin' you ain't quite found yet And yer knee-deep in the dark water yer hands in the air And the whole a-watchin' with a window peek stare And yer good gal and she's long gone a-flying And yer heart feels like fish when they're fryin'
And yer jackhammer from yer hand to yer feet And you it badly but it lays on the street And yer bell's bangin' loudly but you can't it's beat And you think yer ears might a hurt Or yer eyes've filthy from the sight-blindin' dirt And you figured you in yesterdays rush When you were faked out an' fooled white facing a four
And all the time you holdin' three queens And it's you mad, it's makin' you mean Like in the middle of magazine Bouncin' a pinball machine
And there's something on yer mind you wanna be somebody someplace oughta be hearin' But it's trapped on yer and sealed in yer head And it you badly when your layin' in bed And no how you try you just can't say it And yer scared to yer you just might forget it And yer eyes get swimmy from the in yer head And yer pillows of feathers to blankets of lead
And the lion's opens and yer staring at his teeth And his start closin with you underneath And yer on your belly with yer hands tied behind And you wish you'd never taken that detour sign And you say to yourself, "Just what am I On this road I'm walkin', on trail I'm turnin' On this curve I'm On this pathway I'm strolling, in the I'm taking In this air I'm
Am I mixed up too much, am I up too hard? Why am I walking, am I running? What am I saying, am I knowing? On this I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin' On this I'm strummin', in the song I'm singin' In the I'm hummin', in the words I'm thinkin' In the that I'm writing
In ocean of hours I'm all the time drinkin' Who am I helping, am I breaking? What am I giving, am I taking? But you try with your soul best Never to these thoughts and never to let Them kind of gain ground Or make yer pound But then again you know why around Just for a chance to slip and drop down
"Cause sometimes you hear'em when the night times creeping And you fear that might catch you a-sleeping And you from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin' And you can't remember for the best of yer If was you in the dream that was screaming And you know that something special you're needin' And you know that there's no that'll do for the healin' And no liquor in the land to stop yer from bleeding
You something special, you need something special, all right You need a fast flyin' train on a tornado To shoot you someplace and shoot you You a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler That's banging and booming and blowing forever That knows yer troubles a times over
You need a Greyhound bus that don't bar no That won't laugh at yer looks, voice or your face And by any of bets in the book Will be long after the bubblegum craze You need to open up a new door To show you something you before But overlooked a hundred or more You need something to open eyes
You need to make it known That it's you and no one that owns That spot yer standing That space that you're That the ain't got you beat That it ain't got you It can't get you crazy no how many Times you might get
You something special all right You need special to give you hope But hope's just a word that maybe you or maybe you heard On some windy corner a wide-angled curve But what you need man, and you need it bad And yer is you know it too good "Cause you look an' you getting the chills "Cause you can't find it on a dollar
And it on Macy's window sill And it on no rich kid's road map And it in no fat kid's fraternity house And it ain't made in no wheat germ And it ain't on that dimlit With that comedian on it Ranting and raving and taking yer And you thinks it's
No you can't it in no night club or no yacht club And it ain't in the of a supper club And sure as hell you're bound to tell no matter how hard you rub You just ain't a-gonna it on yer ticket stub No, and it in the rumors people're tellin' you And it ain't in the pimple-lotion people are you And it ain't in no house Or down any movie blouse
And you can't find it on the course And Uncle Remus can't tell you and neither can Claus And it ain't in the cream puff hair-do or candy clothes And it ain't in the dime store dummies or goons And it ain't in the marshmallow noises of the cake voices That come and tappin' in Christmas wrappin'
Sayin' "Ain't I and ain't I cute? Look at my Look at my skin shine, look at my skin Look at my laugh, look at my skin cry" When you can't even sense if they got any These people so pretty in their ribbons and No not now or no other day Find it on the doorsteps made out-a mache? And inside it the made of molasses That every other day buy a new pair of
And it ain't in the fifty-star and flipped-out phonies Who'd turn yuh in for a of a penny Who and burp and bend and crack And you can count from one to ten Do it all over again but this behind yer back, my friend The ones that and deal and whirl and twirl And play games with each other in their world
And you find it either in the no-talent fools That run around gallant and make all rules for the that got talent And it ain't in the ones that ain't got any but think they do And they're foolin' you The who jump on the wagon Just for a while they know it's in style To get kicks, get out of it quick And all kinds of rnoney and chicks
And you yell to and you throw down yer hat Sayin', "Christ do I be like that! Ain't there no one here that where I'm at? there no one here that knows how I feel? Good God Almighty that ain't real!
No but that ain't yer game, it ain't even yer You hear yer name, you can't see yer face You gotta look other place And where do you look for this that yer seekin'? Where do you for this lamp that's a-burnin'? do you look for this oil well gushin'? Where do you look for this that's glowin'? Where do you look for this that you know is there And out somewhere And your feet can walk down two kinds of roads?
Your eyes can only look two kinds of windows Your nose can smell two kinds of hallways You can and twist and turn two kinds of doorknobs You can either go to the church of choice Or you can go to State Hospital You'll God in the church of your choice You'll find Woody Guthrie in State Hospital
And though it's only my I may be right or find them both In the Grand Canyon at