When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.