[00:25.47]When I was a hitchhiker on the road
[00:29.33]I had to count on you
[00:32.88]But you needed me to ease the load
[00:36.15]And for conversation too
[00:39.75]Or did you just drive on through.
[00:42.92]
[00:52.27]You didn't see me in Toronto
[00:55.34]When I first tried out some hash
[00:59.12]Smoked some then and I'll do it again
[01:02.26]If I only had some cash
[01:06.07]Only had some cash.
[01:09.67]
[01:18.48]Then I tried amphetamines
[01:21.52]And my head was in a glass
[01:25.35]Taped underneath the speedometer wires
[01:28.55]Of my '48 Buick's dash.
[01:31.96]But I knew that wouldn't last.
[01:35.95]
[01:47.82]Then came California
[01:50.83]Where I first saw open water
[01:54.51]In the land of opportunity
[01:58.18]I knew I was getting hotter
[02:01.80]I knew I was getting hotter.
[02:04.98]
[02:10.42]But the neon lights
[02:11.78]And the endless nights
[02:13.87]They took me by surprise
[02:17.59]The doctor gave me valium
[02:20.68]But I still couldn't close my eyes
[02:24.52]I still couldn't close my eyes.
[02:28.05]
[02:36.59]Then came paranoia
[02:39.83]And it ran away with me
[02:43.20]I couldn't sign my autograph
[02:46.89]Or appear on TV
[02:50.29]Or see or be seen
[03:00.42]
[03:02.56]Living in the country
[03:06.08]Sounded good to me
[03:09.29]Smoking grass while the summer lasts
[03:12.75]In the real organic sea
[03:15.78]Where everything was green
[03:22.07]
[03:24.80]Then we had a kid and we split apart
[03:27.84]I was living on the road
[03:31.28]A little cocaine went a long long way
[03:34.80]To ease that different load
[03:38.20]But my head did explode
[03:42.82]My head did explode.
[03:46.14]
[03:53.37]I wish I was an Aztec
[03:56.59]Or a runner in Peru
[04:00.00]I would build such beautiful buildings
[04:03.34]To house the chosen few
[04:07.15]Like an Inca from Peru.
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