And The Horse They Rode In On

Follows me wherever we go
Undermining all that we know
Suddenly starts thinkin' been fooled from the beginnin'
When the cause is lost you find there is no point in winnin'
Then it's hard to think straight when your head it keeps on spinnin'

If i lost my mind, would you help me find it?

Maybe it's you, maybe it's me
Things aren't quite the way they should be
And now it seems my peace of mind has come up for the biddin'
All those i respect and trust i guess they were just kiddin'
And they will say it's me who's lost, and as you sit there grinnin'
My little world has lost control but still it keeps on spinnin'

If i lost my mind, would you help me find it?
If i lost my mind, i wouldn't have to be reminded

If i lost my mind i'm not sure i would mind
Would you help me find it?

When (aid?) turned sideways
(and? it'd?) head on down the highway
Say this is my way
Disappearing forever

But there ain't just one way
So you choose the fun way
Slide down the (runway?)
On a ticket that goes two ways

And by the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Cause it wasn't yours to take

What once seemed like dying
Soon turned into flying
So you settle for trying
And you wish you were grounded

No you cannot get much higher
Than your utmost desire
So you bring it down to size and
Now it seems that you are grounded

By the way that it sounded
You thought that you'd be astounded
But you left it like you found it
Now you find that you are grounded

i got something special to show you
But i suppose you've seen it all before
There's one thing i'm trying to tell you
But then again, you've heard it all before

I survived another week just like the one
Before,
When everything you wanted somehow leaves
You wanting more
And i looked beneath the carpet behind
Each and every door,
Trying to find you something like you've
Never had before

And it seems we're just beginners
No previous experience at all
Just the last original sinners
And if you need me just be sure to call

And they tell you which way not to go and
So you go that way
One child plays with ??, another throws
It away
Like a kite without string go anywhere do
Anything
I'm trying to take you someplace you've
Never been before

I see something new in each and every move
From your old, old hat to your blown-out
Shoes
It's tried and true, and it's all i do
And i hope it's not all the same to you
The old and new, they get mistaken all
The time
Is there something i've never seen before
No, just a brand new shine

Now they're cranking 'em out by the
Millions
They look and act exactly just the same
And each one's one in a million
And each has got its own elusive game

It's the same old dusty atmosphere just
Like the other place
I see something familiar in each and
Every face
Seems to me i've seen you, been here,
Said this once before
I'm trying to take you someplace you've
Never been before

I see something new in each and every moon
From your old, old hat to your blown-out
Shoes
When i dropped it and broke it, i thought
Of you
And i hope it's not all the same to you
And the old and new, they get mistaken
All the time
Is there something i've never seen before

Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet
No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you

And whatever you do, when everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life

?? chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep
Pacing, ?? circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep
No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you

I never quite got that through; i know what waits for you
I know ?? for something to do with the rest of your life

Stop looking over my shoulder, (it was a?) little bolder
You're going somewhere i might be on your way

This time i don't mean maybe
Nowhere i'd rather be
If you're coming with me i might be on your way

I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention, it's all i ever wanted from you
Who will be the victim, who will be the host
Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most

For you, i'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through,
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life
I need something to fear the rest of my (life's not in vain?)

The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead
Is to be on our own
But people, they do the strangest things
You never know what they might do
When they are left alone
There's men without gods and gods without men
And a spirit of which none of them can transcend
But something peculiar is happening
We should just be happy with just what we've got
And the problems should be too few to mention
But they're not

Where can i go for some information?
So tired of the big sensation
I need to know what's going on
Oh well you're the well-informed
Into your world which i was born
My friend, here's to you
How would i know if there was something wrong
When the weak of heart out-survive the strong
The truth is almost always confidential
You never know just what you've got until it's gone
And your friends have never seemed so essential
When you're wrong

Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change

Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing i would rearrange, don't ever change

Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place
Don't try to save face my friend

There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away

Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black studebaker, they were acting pretty scary
No one talked as they synchronized their watches
And they drove past a train station

The train rolled out with a passenger car
Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars
?? coats
?? and that would be all she wrote

And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers
Sold out their trades to become drug dealers
There ain't no money in doing things straight
Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid

Outside the train window fast as he could ride
Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies
And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes
For the house he was riding to burglarize

All through the house they were dancing and singing
An extended family with fiddlers and magicians
A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion
To pacify all the killers and rapist

The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription
For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman
In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions
To the city that looked over the ocean

And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids
And soon the city would be crawling with addicts
And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics
(when?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?)

And no one knows what's going on
But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day
And nice guys don't get paid
Nice guys don't get paid

Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars
(upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars
Car-jacking fanatics who kill for religion
In a city full of addicts and color television