The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.