The other night I had a crazy dream
'Bout a man in a fishing hat selling magazines
All the way from Kingston he'd worked his way down
I bought him a drink on the night they kicked him out of town
He said, "You know I don't like the way I am."
"No, I don't like the way I am."
And I saw an old fisherman out swayin' on a dock
Swigging a jug of something and a string of fish that he had caught
His wife had left him just a week before
She packed up her bags and waltzed on out the door
She said, "You know I don't like the way I am."
"No, I don't like the way I am."
And then she cried
And you and me walked down the shores of our youth
Chasing the sunrise, challenging the truth
It's all so distant now I've seen too many lies
Turning my vision into crumbling demise
Makes me wanna say
You know I don't like the way I am
No, I don't like the way I am
But I'm gonna change the way I am
I'm gonna change the way I am
Met an old friend last night, had a cup of coffee
We talked about all the things that had been going on
We talked about the old days, we talked about the new days
We talked just about anything but what was really going on
After ten long minutes that slowly passed us by
The tension in the air I could cut it with a knife
Staring out the window and gazing at the menu
Suddenly he called my name and he looked me in the eye
He said, "I don't know where I'm going and I don't know where
I've been.
And there's one long road that I traveled just to see you again.
I said I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I've been.
And it seems I got a little trouble and I need you my friend."
And then he talked to me, he really talked to me
He said, "I've been thinking about all of my drinking.
About all those good things I've just let slip away.
First it was a good job and then it was the woman that I loved.
Then it was my car and all the material things."
And suddenly tears welled up as he did surrender
He cried, "I finally lost the only thing I ever really had."
He said, "I lost myself in the madness."
And now I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I've been
And it's one long road that I traveled to see you again
No, I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I've been
And it seems I got a little trouble and I need to talk to you again
Oh, it's in the journey that we see there's no destination
It's in the journey that we find our true love
It's in the journey that we learn we can do it alone, can do it
alone
Still gotta dig deep down inside and lose my pride
Well we don't know where we're going
We don't know just where we've been
We gotta dig deep down inside
Can't do it alone
We gotta dig deep down inside
My baby she loves me so
My little baby she never tells me no
My sweet baby never gonna let her go
Not today, anyway
You know my honey she comforts me
My little honey crumpets with my tea
In the morning it just happens to be
That I've fallen in love
Least I think it's love
Since you're new and your eyes are blue
I think I'll show you around the block
There's a little place called The Step Thirteen
And, man does that old joint rock
You know it rocks about this time every night
Let's go have us a ball
We'll do the thirteen step boogie
Come boogie with me
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie a while
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie the night away
My baby almost every night
My little honey she likes to hold me so tight
She's a teenage girl
It's way too easy to be right
But I'm there by her side
Thanks for the ride
Since you're new and your eyes are blue
Think I'll show you around the block
There's a little place called Step Thirteen
And, man, does that old joint rock
You know it rocks around this time every night
Let's go have us a ball
Come on y'all
We'll do the thirteen step boogie
Come boogie with me
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie a while
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie the night away
Well you must have been a beautiful baby
You must have been a beautiful girl
You must have been a beautiful baby
Because you're rocking my world and I just don't know what to do
About you
You must have been a beautiful darling
You must have been one heck of a child
You must have been a beautiful baby
Because you've got me going wild and I just don't know what to do
About you
So listen to me, baby
Yeah, you must have been a beautiful baby
You must have been one heck of a girl
You must have been a beautiful baby
Because you're rocking my world and I just don't know what to do
Take me home baby
Said you must have been a beautiful darling
You must have been one heck of a child
You must have been a beautiful baby
Because you got me going hog wild
My faith is gone
My faith is gone
I tried to hold on but my faith was gone
My faith in you
My faith in me
We fought your war then began to see
All of the people in the street
Beatin' arrested and slain
When is your mission complete
When the whole world's insane
Can you tell me now, tell me please
I am listening
My faith is gone
My faith is gone
We build our walls as you make your laws
Laws that will hold the rich high
Laws that will chain the poor down
But in the meantime we fight
We're gonna meet on common ground
Gonna lose the fear that you hold so dear
Is there anybody there?
The moral majority
Fanatic minorities
Low priorities
The silent majority
Something's wrong
My faith is gone
My faith is gone
I tried to hold on but my faith was gone
There's been something, baby, I've been trying to say
For an age and it seems I don't know how
With the past and the future now surrounding me
I surrender to whatever cheap thrill can be found
There's been a little trouble
Since you came to my rescue
And if you were like all of the rest
I would have quit you long ago
But I couldn't do that
Women and wine
Never went too well
Make me say things I don't want to tell
I know baby that you wish me well
But in spite of your trying
I'm still gonna have to find my own way through
Like the mist of morning, my dream remains
Hanging in the burnt fields of my memory
The flames hiss a chorus of your disdain
Picking up the past I left behind
I'm searching solution on the double
On this two ton telephone
My friend says you ain't got no real trouble
Just too many choices you left undone
My friend like all of the rest says
Put an action to these words
And it'll all come
Women and wine
Never went so well
Make a man crazy
Make him cold as hell
I know woman that you wish me well
But in spite of all your trying
Still gonna have to find my own way through
Time has a way of turning my head around
Like a groove of sunshine on the cloudiest of days
Now the wind is blowing in the right direction
With a candle under my seat
And good ground under my feet
To walk on
Every time I see you now I get that look in my eye
Every time I read your lips I hear your smile
In the early misty morning light
I heard the engine turning in the old Ford outside
You were leaving me again today
And you would convince me again today
You're leaving this hard town
Looking for someone else's golden ring
Sharing jeans and cigarettes and keeping warm out on the road
Chasing down the lifestyle out on Highway 24
New York State was the rollin' breeze and the sunshine in the blue
sky fallin'
To the chill of old September creepin' in
And you were leaving again today
And you would convince me again today
That you're leaving this hard town
Looking for someone else's golden ring
So goodbye Suzanna
Baby don't you cry
So long Suzanna
Don't you cry for me
