[00:01.91]When your head gets twisted and your mind grows numb
[00:04.15]When you think you're too old, too young,
[00:05.60]Too smart or too dumb
[00:07.63]When you're laggin' behind and losin' your pace
[00:09.63]In a slow motion crawl of life's busy race
[00:12.33]No matter what you're doing, if you start givin' up
[00:14.07]If the wine don't come to the top of your cup
[00:16.31]If the winds got you sideways with, with one hand holdin' on
[00:18.79]And the other starts slippin' and the feelin' is gone
[00:21.14]And your train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it
[00:23.58]And the woods' easy findin' but you're lazy to fetch it
[00:26.67]And your sidewalk starts curlin' and the street gets too long
[00:29.27]And you start walkin' backwards though you know it's wrong
[00:31.43]And lonesome comes up as down goes the day
[00:33.92]And tomorrow's mornin' seems so far away
[00:35.99]And you feel the reins from your pony are slippin'
[00:38.28]And your rope is a slidin' 'cause your hands are a drippin'
[00:40.44]And your sun-decked desert and evergreen valleys
[00:42.49]Turn to broken down slums and trash-can alleys
[00:45.89]And your sky cries water and your drain pipes a pourin'
[00:48.79]And the lightnin's a flashin' and the thunders a crashin'
[00:51.03]And the windows are rattlin' and breakin'
[00:52.44]And the roof tops a shakin'
[00:53.53]And your whole world's a slammin' and bangin'
[00:55.58]And your minutes of sun turn to hours of storm
[00:57.27]And to yourself, you sometimes say
[00:59.15]"I never knew it was gonna be this way
[01:00.55]Why didn't they tell me the day I was born?"
[01:02.73]And you start gettin' chills and you're jumpin' from sweat
[01:04.92]And you're lookin' for somethin' you ain't quite found yet
[01:07.42]And you're knee-deep in the dark water with your hands in the air
[01:09.77]And the whole world's a watchin' with a window peek stare
[01:11.97]And your good gal leaves and she's long gone a flyin'
[01:14.11]And your heart feels sick like fish when they're fryin'
[01:17.22]And your jackhammer falls from your hand to your feet
[01:19.36]And you need it badly but it lays on the street
[01:21.67]And your bells bangin' loudly but you can't hear its beat
[01:24.26]And you think your ears might been hurt
[01:25.75]Or your eyes've turned filthy from the sight-blindin' dirt
[01:28.45]And you figured you failed in yesterday's rush
[01:30.32]When you were faked out, an fooled white facin' a four flush
[01:32.72]And all the time you were holdin' three queens
[01:34.71]And it's makin' you mad, it's makin' you mean
[01:36.31]Like in the middle of life magazine
[01:37.95]Bouncin' around a pinball machine
[01:39.94]And there's somethin' on your mind you wanna be sayin'
[01:41.81]That somebody someplace oughta be hearin'
[01:44.37]But it's trapped on your tongue and sealed in your head
[01:46.47]And it bothers you badly when you're layin' in bed
[01:48.64]And no matter how you try, you just can't say it
[01:50.59]And you're scared to your soul, you just might forget it
[01:52.69]And your eyes get swimmy from the tears in your head
[01:54.62]And your pillows of feathers turn to blankets of lead
[01:56.76]And the lion's mouth opens and your starin' at his teeth
[01:59.11]And his jaws start closin' with you underneath
[02:01.10]And you're flat on your belly with your hands tied behind
[02:03.40]And you wish you'd never taken that last detour sign
[02:05.64]And you say to yourself, just what am I doin'?
[02:08.02]On this road I'm walkin', on this trail I'm turnin'
[02:11.14]On this curve I'm hangin', on this pathway I'm strollin'
[02:13.51]In the space I'm takin', in this air I'm inhalin'"
[02:16.00]Am I mixed up too much, am I mixed up too hard?
[02:18.36]Why am I walkin', where am I runnin'?
[02:20.04]What am I sayin', what am I knowin'
[02:21.40]On this guitar I'm playin', on this banjo I'm frailin'?
[02:24.10]On this mandolin I'm strummin'
[02:25.50]In the song I'm singin', in the tune I'm hummin'
[02:27.61]In the words I'm thinkin', in the words that I'm writtin'
[02:30.82]In this ocean of hours, I'm all the time drinkin'
[02:33.30]Who am I helpin', what am I breakin'?
[02:34.82]What am I givin', what am I takin'?
[02:36.81]But you try with your whole soul best
[02:38.38]Never to think these thoughts and never to let
[02:40.08]Them kind of thoughts gain ground or make your heart pound
[02:42.83]But then again, you know why they're around
[02:44.28]Just waitin' for a chance to slip and drop down
[02:47.08]'Cause sometimes you hear 'em
[02:48.11]When the night times comes creepin'
[02:49.31]And you fear that they might catch you a sleepin'
[02:50.86]And you jump from your bed, from your last chapter of dreamin'
[02:53.42]And you can't remember for the best of your thinkin'
[02:55.07]If that was you in the dream that was screamin'
[02:57.67]And you know that it's somethin' special you're needin'
[02:59.43]And you know that there's no drug that'll do for the healin'
[03:01.19]And no liquor in the land to stop your brain from bleedin'
[03:04.24]And you need somethin' special
[03:05.21]You need somethin' special, all right
[03:06.68]You need a fast flyin' train on a tornado track
[03:08.96]To shoot you someplace and shoot you back
[03:11.56]You need a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler
[03:13.90]That's been bangin' and boomin' and blowin' forever
[03:15.75]That knows your troubles a hundred times over
[03:20.01]That won't laugh at your looks, your voice or your face
[03:21.95]And by any number of bets in the book
[03:17.84]You need a Greyhound bus that don't bar no race
[03:23.25]Will be rollin' long after the bubblegum craze
[03:25.71]You need somethin' to open up a new door
[03:27.42]To show you somethin' you seen before
[03:28.72]But overlooked a hundred times or more
[03:30.97]You need somethin' to open your eyes
[03:32.22]You need somethin' to make it known
[03:33.51]That it's you and no one else that owns
[03:35.05]That spot that you're standin', that space that you're sittin'
[03:37.20]That the world ain't got you beat
[03:39.31]That it ain't got you licked
[03:40.21]It can't get you crazy, no matter how many times
[03:42.09]You might get kicked
[03:43.43]You need somethin' special all right
[03:44.68]You need somethin' special to give you hope
[03:46.67]But hope's just a word
[03:47.67]That maybe you said or maybe you heard
[03:49.22]On some windy corner, 'round a wide-angled curve
[03:51.56]But that's what you need, man and you need it bad
[03:53.94]And your trouble is you know it too good
[03:55.45]'Cause you look and you start gettin' the chills
[03:57.09]'Cause you can't find it on a dollar bill
[03:59.09]And it ain't on Macy's window sill
[04:01.69]And it ain't on no rich kid's road map
[04:03.28]And it ain't in no fat kid's fraternity house
[04:05.27]And it ain't made in no Hollywood wheat germ
[04:06.98]And it ain't on that dim lit stage
[04:08.63]With that half-wit comedian on it
[04:10.05]Rantin' and ravin' and takin' your money
[04:11.39]And you thinks it's funny
[04:12.49]No, you can't find it in no night club or no yacht club
[04:14.83]And it ain't in the seats of a supper club
[04:16.45]And sure as hell, you're bound to tell
[04:17.94]No matter how hard you rub
[04:18.84]You just ain't a gonna find it on your ticket stub
[04:20.98]No and it ain't in the rumors people are tellin' you
[04:22.86]And it ain't in the pimple lotion people are sellin' you
[04:25.00]And it ain't in no cardboard box house
[04:26.50]Or down any movie star's blouse
[04:28.51]And you can't find it on the golf course
[04:30.35]And Uncle Remus can't tell you and neither can Santa Claus
[04:33.50]And it ain't in the cream puff hair-do or cotton candy clothes
[04:36.01]And it ain't in the dime store dummies or bubblegum goons
[04:38.30]And it ain't in the marshmallow noises
[04:39.34]of the chocolate cake voices
[04:40.89]That come knockin' and tappin' in Christmas wrappin'
[04:43.14]Sayin', ain't I pretty? and ain't I cute?"
[04:44.68]"Look at my skin
[04:45.33]Look at my skin shine, look at my skin glow
[04:48.26]Look at my skin laugh, look at my skin cry
[04:50.15]When you can't even sense if they got any insides
[04:52.15]These people so pretty in their ribbons and bows
[04:54.90]No, you'll not, now or no other day
[04:56.29]Find it on the doorsteps made out a paper mache
[04:58.39]And inside it the people made of molasses
[05:00.04]That every other day buy a new pair of sunglasses
[05:02.44]And it ain't in the fifty star generals
[05:03.98]And flipped out phonies
[05:05.18]Who'd turn you in for a tenth of a penny
[05:06.77]Who breathe and burp and bend and crack
[05:08.47]And before you can count from one to ten
[05:10.06]Do it all over again but this time behind your back,
[05:11.82]My friend
[05:13.37]The one's that wheel and deal and whirl and twirl
[05:15.32]And play games with each other in their sand-box world
[05:17.66]And you can't find it either in the no talent fools
[05:19.65]That run around gallant
[05:20.52]And make all rules for the ones that got talent
[05:22.47]And it ain't in the ones that ain't got any talent
[05:24.03]But think they do and think they're foolin' you
[05:25.72]The ones who jump on the wagon
[05:26.85]Just for a while 'cause they know it's in style
[05:28.64]To get their kicks, get out of it quick
[05:30.08]And make all kinds of money and chicks
[05:31.92]And you yell to yourself and you throw down your hat
[05:33.73]Sayin', "Christ, do I gotta be like that?
[05:35.48]Ain't there no one here that knows where I'm at
[05:37.44]Ain't there no one here that knows how I feel
[05:39.08]Good God Almighty, that stuff ain't real"
[05:41.37]No, but that ain't your game, it ain't your race
[05:43.97]You can't hear your name, you can't see your face
[05:45.66]You gotta look some other place
[05:47.56]And where do you look for this hope that you're seekin'
[05:49.41]Where do you look for this lamp that's a burnin'?
[05:51.06]Where do you look for this oil well gushin'?
[05:52.85]Where do you look for this candle that's glowin'?
[05:54.55]Where do you look for this hope that you know is there
[05:55.90]And out there somewhere?
[05:57.55]And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads
[06:00.00]Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows
[06:02.14]Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways
[06:04.50]You can touch and twist and turn two kinds of doorknobs
[06:07.34]You can either go to the church of your choice
[06:09.04]Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital
[06:10.40]You'll find God in the church of your choice
[06:12.79]You'll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State Hospital
[06:15.26]And though it's only my opinion, I may be right or wrong
[06:17.25]You'll find them both in Grand Canyon, at sundown