| Song | Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie |
| Artist | Bob Dylan |
| Album | The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie | |
| Boby Dylan | |
| When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb | |
| When you think you're too old, too young, too smart or too dumb | |
| When yer laggin' behind an' losin' yer pace | |
| In a slow-motion crawl of life's busy race | |
| No matter what yer doing if you start givin' up | |
| If the wine don't come to the top of yer cup | |
| If the wind's got you sideways with with one hand holdin' on | |
| And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone | |
| And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it | |
| And the wood's easy findin' but yer lazy to fetch it | |
| And yer sidewalk starts curlin' and the street gets too long | |
| And you start walkin' backwards though you know its wrong | |
| And lonesome comes up as down goes the day | |
| And tomorrow's mornin' seems so far away | |
| And you feel the reins from yer pony are slippin' | |
| And yer rope is a-slidin' 'cause yer hands are a-drippin' | |
| And yer sun-decked desert and evergreen valleys | |
| Turn to broken down slums and trash-can alleys | |
| And yer sky cries water and yer drain pipe's a-pourin' | |
| And the lightnin's a-flashing and the thunder's a-crashin' | |
| And the windows are rattlin' and breakin' and the roof tops a-shakin' | |
| And yer whole world's a-slammin' and bangin' | |
| And yer minutes of sun turn to hours of storm | |
| And to yourself you sometimes say | |
| "I never knew it was gonna be this way | |
| Why didn't they tell me the day I was born" | |
| And you start gettin' chills and yer jumping from sweat | |
| And you're lookin' for somethin' you ain't quite found yet | |
| And yer knee-deep in the dark water with yer hands in the air | |
| And the whole world's a-watchin' with a window peek stare | |
| And yer good gal leaves and she's long gone a-flying | |
| And yer heart feels sick like fish when they're fryin' | |
| And yer jackhammer falls from yer hand to yer feet | |
| And you need it badly but it lays on the street | |
| And yer bell's bangin' loudly but you can't hear its beat | |
| And you think yer ears might a been hurt | |
| Or yer eyes've turned filthy from the sight-blindin' dirt | |
| And you figured you failed in yesterdays rush | |
| When you were faked out an' fooled white facing a four flush | |
| And all the time you were holdin' three queens | |
| And it's makin you mad, it's makin' you mean | |
| Like in the middle of Life magazine | |
| Bouncin' around a pinball machine | |
| And there's something on yer mind you wanna be saying | |
| That somebody someplace oughta be hearin' | |
| But it's trapped on yer tongue and sealed in yer head | |
| And it bothers you badly when your layin' in bed | |
| And no matter how you try you just can't say it | |
| And yer scared to yer soul you just might forget it | |
| And yer eyes get swimmy from the tears in yer head | |
| And yer pillows of feathers turn to blankets of lead | |
| And the lion's mouth opens and yer staring at his teeth | |
| And his jaws start closin with you underneath | |
| And yer flat on your belly with yer hands tied behind | |
| And you wish you'd never taken that last detour sign | |
| And you say to yourself just what am I doin' | |
| On this road I'm walkin', on this trail I'm turnin' | |
| On this curve I'm hanging | |
| On this pathway I'm strolling, in the space I'm taking | |
| In this air I'm inhaling | |
| Am I mixed up too much, am I mixed up too hard | |
| Why am I walking, where am I running | |
| What am I saying, what am I knowing | |
| On this guitar I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin' | |
| On this mandolin I'm strummin', in the song I'm singin' | |
| In the tune I'm hummin', in the words I'm writin' | |
| In the words that I'm thinkin' | |
| In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinkin' | |
| Who am I helping, what am I breaking | |
| What am I giving, what am I taking | |
| But you try with your whole soul best | |
| Never to think these thoughts and never to let | |
| Them kind of thoughts gain ground | |
| Or make yer heart pound | |
| But then again you know why they're around | |
| Just waiting for a chance to slip and drop down | |
| "Cause sometimes you hear'em when the night times comes creeping | |
| And you fear that they might catch you a-sleeping | |
| And you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin' | |
| And you can't remember for the best of yer thinking | |
| If that was you in the dream that was screaming | |
| And you know that it's something special you're needin' | |
| And you know that there's no drug that'll do for the healin' | |
| And no liquor in the land to stop yer brain from bleeding | |
| And you need something special | |
| Yeah, you need something special all right | |
| You need a fast flyin' train on a tornado track | |
| To shoot you someplace and shoot you back | |
| You need a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler | |
| That's been banging and booming and blowing forever | |
| That knows yer troubles a hundred times over | |
| You need a Greyhound bus that don't bar no race | |
| That won't laugh at yer looks | |
| Your voice or your face | |
| And by any number of bets in the book | |
| Will be rollin' long after the bubblegum craze | |
| You need something to open up a new door | |
| To show you something you seen before | |
| But overlooked a hundred times or more | |
| You need something to open your eyes | |
| You need something to make it known | |
| That it's you and no one else that owns | |
| That spot that yer standing, that space that you're sitting | |
| That the world ain't got you beat | |
| That it ain't got you licked | |
| It can't get you crazy no matter how many | |
| Times you might get kicked | |
| You need something special all right | |
| You need something special to give you hope | |
| But hope's just a word | |
| That maybe you said or maybe you heard | |
| On some windy corner 'round a wide-angled curve | |
| But that's what you need man, and you need it bad | |
| And yer trouble is you know it too good | |
| "Cause you look an' you start getting the chills | |
| "Cause you can't find it on a dollar bill | |
| And it ain't on Macy's window sill | |
| And it ain't on no rich kid's road map | |
| And it ain't in no fat kid's fraternity house | |
| And it ain't made in no Hollywood wheat germ | |
| And it ain't on that dimlit stage | |
| With that half-wit comedian on it | |
| Ranting and raving and taking yer money | |
| And you thinks it's funny | |
| No you can't find it in no night club or no yacht club | |
| And it ain't in the seats of a supper club | |
| And sure as hell you're bound to tell | |
| That no matter how hard you rub | |
| You just ain't a-gonna find it on yer ticket stub | |
| No, and it ain't in the rumors people're tellin' you | |
| And it ain't in the pimple-lotion people are sellin' you | |
| And it ain't in no cardboard-box house | |
| Or down any movie star's blouse | |
| And you can't find it on the golf course | |
| And Uncle Remus can't tell you and neither can Santa Claus | |
| And it ain't in the cream puff hair-do or cotton candy clothes | |
| And it ain't in the dime store dummies or bubblegum goons | |
| And it ain't in the marshmallow noises of the chocolate cake voices | |
| That come knockin' and tappin' in Christmas wrappin' | |
| Sayin' ain't I pretty and ain't I cute and look at my skin | |
| Look at my skin shine, look at my skin glow | |
| Look at my skin laugh, look at my skin cry | |
| When you can't even sense if they got any insides | |
| These people so pretty in their ribbons and bows | |
| No you'll not now or no other day | |
| Find it on the doorsteps made out-a paper mache� | |
| And inside it the people made of molasses | |
| That every other day buy a new pair of sunglasses | |
| And it ain't in the fifty-star generals and flipped-out phonies | |
| Who'd turn yuh in for a tenth of a penny | |
| Who breathe and burp and bend and crack | |
| And before you can count from one to ten | |
| Do it all over again but this time behind yer back | |
| My friend | |
| The ones that wheel and deal and whirl and twirl | |
| And play games with each other in their sand-box world | |
| And you can't find it either in the no-talent fools | |
| That run around gallant | |
| And make all rules for the ones that got talent | |
| And it ain't in the ones that ain't got any talent but think they do | |
| And think they're foolin' you | |
| The ones who jump on the wagon | |
| Just for a while 'cause they know it's in style | |
| To get their kicks, get out of it quick | |
| And make all kinds of money and chicks | |
| And you yell to yourself and you throw down yer hat | |
| Sayin', "Christ do I gotta be like that | |
| Ain't there no one here that knows where I'm at | |
| Ain't there no one here that knows how I feel | |
| Good God Almighty | |
| THAT STUFF AIN'T REAL" | |
| No but that ain't yer game, it ain't even yer race | |
| You can't hear yer name, you can't see yer face | |
| You gotta look some other place | |
| And where do you look for this hope that yer seekin' | |
| Where do you look for this lamp that's a-burnin' | |
| Where do you look for this oil well gushin' | |
| Where do you look for this candle that's glowin' | |
| Where do you look for this hope that you know is there | |
| And out there somewhere | |
| And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads | |
| Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows | |
| Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways | |
| You can touch and twist | |
| And turn two kinds of doorknobs | |
| You can either go to the church of your choice | |
| Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital | |
| You'll find God in the church of your choice | |
| You'll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State Hospital | |
| And though it's only my opinion | |
| I may be right or wrong | |
| You'll find them both | |
| In the Grand Canyon | |
| At sundown |
| Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie | |
| Boby Dylan | |
| When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb | |
| When you think you' re too old, too young, too smart or too dumb | |
| When yer laggin' behind an' losin' yer pace | |
| In a slowmotion crawl of life' s busy race | |
| No matter what yer doing if you start givin' up | |
| If the wine don' t come to the top of yer cup | |
| If the wind' s got you sideways with with one hand holdin' on | |
| And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone | |
| And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it | |
| And the wood' s easy findin' but yer lazy to fetch it | |
| And yer sidewalk starts curlin' and the street gets too long | |
| And you start walkin' backwards though you know its wrong | |
| And lonesome comes up as down goes the day | |
| And tomorrow' s mornin' seems so far away | |
| And you feel the reins from yer pony are slippin' | |
| And yer rope is aslidin' ' cause yer hands are adrippin' | |
| And yer sundecked desert and evergreen valleys | |
| Turn to broken down slums and trashcan alleys | |
| And yer sky cries water and yer drain pipe' s apourin' | |
| And the lightnin' s aflashing and the thunder' s acrashin' | |
| And the windows are rattlin' and breakin' and the roof tops ashakin' | |
| And yer whole world' s aslammin' and bangin' | |
| And yer minutes of sun turn to hours of storm | |
| And to yourself you sometimes say | |
| " I never knew it was gonna be this way | |
| Why didn' t they tell me the day I was born" | |
| And you start gettin' chills and yer jumping from sweat | |
| And you' re lookin' for somethin' you ain' t quite found yet | |
| And yer kneedeep in the dark water with yer hands in the air | |
| And the whole world' s awatchin' with a window peek stare | |
| And yer good gal leaves and she' s long gone aflying | |
| And yer heart feels sick like fish when they' re fryin' | |
| And yer jackhammer falls from yer hand to yer feet | |
| And you need it badly but it lays on the street | |
| And yer bell' s bangin' loudly but you can' t hear its beat | |
| And you think yer ears might a been hurt | |
| Or yer eyes' ve turned filthy from the sightblindin' dirt | |
| And you figured you failed in yesterdays rush | |
| When you were faked out an' fooled white facing a four flush | |
| And all the time you were holdin' three queens | |
| And it' s makin you mad, it' s makin' you mean | |
| Like in the middle of Life magazine | |
| Bouncin' around a pinball machine | |
| And there' s something on yer mind you wanna be saying | |
| That somebody someplace oughta be hearin' | |
| But it' s trapped on yer tongue and sealed in yer head | |
| And it bothers you badly when your layin' in bed | |
| And no matter how you try you just can' t say it | |
| And yer scared to yer soul you just might forget it | |
| And yer eyes get swimmy from the tears in yer head | |
| And yer pillows of feathers turn to blankets of lead | |
| And the lion' s mouth opens and yer staring at his teeth | |
| And his jaws start closin with you underneath | |
| And yer flat on your belly with yer hands tied behind | |
| And you wish you' d never taken that last detour sign | |
| And you say to yourself just what am I doin' | |
| On this road I' m walkin', on this trail I' m turnin' | |
| On this curve I' m hanging | |
| On this pathway I' m strolling, in the space I' m taking | |
| In this air I' m inhaling | |
| Am I mixed up too much, am I mixed up too hard | |
| Why am I walking, where am I running | |
| What am I saying, what am I knowing | |
| On this guitar I' m playing, on this banjo I' m frailin' | |
| On this mandolin I' m strummin', in the song I' m singin' | |
| In the tune I' m hummin', in the words I' m writin' | |
| In the words that I' m thinkin' | |
| In this ocean of hours I' m all the time drinkin' | |
| Who am I helping, what am I breaking | |
| What am I giving, what am I taking | |
| But you try with your whole soul best | |
| Never to think these thoughts and never to let | |
| Them kind of thoughts gain ground | |
| Or make yer heart pound | |
| But then again you know why they' re around | |
| Just waiting for a chance to slip and drop down | |
| " Cause sometimes you hear' em when the night times comes creeping | |
| And you fear that they might catch you asleeping | |
| And you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin' | |
| And you can' t remember for the best of yer thinking | |
| If that was you in the dream that was screaming | |
| And you know that it' s something special you' re needin' | |
| And you know that there' s no drug that' ll do for the healin' | |
| And no liquor in the land to stop yer brain from bleeding | |
| And you need something special | |
| Yeah, you need something special all right | |
| You need a fast flyin' train on a tornado track | |
| To shoot you someplace and shoot you back | |
| You need a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler | |
| That' s been banging and booming and blowing forever | |
| That knows yer troubles a hundred times over | |
| You need a Greyhound bus that don' t bar no race | |
| That won' t laugh at yer looks | |
| Your voice or your face | |
| And by any number of bets in the book | |
| Will be rollin' long after the bubblegum craze | |
| You need something to open up a new door | |
| To show you something you seen before | |
| But overlooked a hundred times or more | |
| You need something to open your eyes | |
| You need something to make it known | |
| That it' s you and no one else that owns | |
| That spot that yer standing, that space that you' re sitting | |
| That the world ain' t got you beat | |
| That it ain' t got you licked | |
| It can' t get you crazy no matter how many | |
| Times you might get kicked | |
| You need something special all right | |
| You need something special to give you hope | |
| But hope' s just a word | |
| That maybe you said or maybe you heard | |
| On some windy corner ' round a wideangled curve | |
| But that' s what you need man, and you need it bad | |
| And yer trouble is you know it too good | |
| " Cause you look an' you start getting the chills | |
| " Cause you can' t find it on a dollar bill | |
| And it ain' t on Macy' s window sill | |
| And it ain' t on no rich kid' s road map | |
| And it ain' t in no fat kid' s fraternity house | |
| And it ain' t made in no Hollywood wheat germ | |
| And it ain' t on that dimlit stage | |
| With that halfwit comedian on it | |
| Ranting and raving and taking yer money | |
| And you thinks it' s funny | |
| No you can' t find it in no night club or no yacht club | |
| And it ain' t in the seats of a supper club | |
| And sure as hell you' re bound to tell | |
| That no matter how hard you rub | |
| You just ain' t agonna find it on yer ticket stub | |
| No, and it ain' t in the rumors people' re tellin' you | |
| And it ain' t in the pimplelotion people are sellin' you | |
| And it ain' t in no cardboardbox house | |
| Or down any movie star' s blouse | |
| And you can' t find it on the golf course | |
| And Uncle Remus can' t tell you and neither can Santa Claus | |
| And it ain' t in the cream puff hairdo or cotton candy clothes | |
| And it ain' t in the dime store dummies or bubblegum goons | |
| And it ain' t in the marshmallow noises of the chocolate cake voices | |
| That come knockin' and tappin' in Christmas wrappin' | |
| Sayin' ain' t I pretty and ain' t I cute and look at my skin | |
| Look at my skin shine, look at my skin glow | |
| Look at my skin laugh, look at my skin cry | |
| When you can' t even sense if they got any insides | |
| These people so pretty in their ribbons and bows | |
| No you' ll not now or no other day | |
| Find it on the doorsteps made outa paper mache | |
| And inside it the people made of molasses | |
| That every other day buy a new pair of sunglasses | |
| And it ain' t in the fiftystar generals and flippedout phonies | |
| Who' d turn yuh in for a tenth of a penny | |
| Who breathe and burp and bend and crack | |
| And before you can count from one to ten | |
| Do it all over again but this time behind yer back | |
| My friend | |
| The ones that wheel and deal and whirl and twirl | |
| And play games with each other in their sandbox world | |
| And you can' t find it either in the notalent fools | |
| That run around gallant | |
| And make all rules for the ones that got talent | |
| And it ain' t in the ones that ain' t got any talent but think they do | |
| And think they' re foolin' you | |
| The ones who jump on the wagon | |
| Just for a while ' cause they know it' s in style | |
| To get their kicks, get out of it quick | |
| And make all kinds of money and chicks | |
| And you yell to yourself and you throw down yer hat | |
| Sayin', " Christ do I gotta be like that | |
| Ain' t there no one here that knows where I' m at | |
| Ain' t there no one here that knows how I feel | |
| Good God Almighty | |
| THAT STUFF AIN' T REAL" | |
| No but that ain' t yer game, it ain' t even yer race | |
| You can' t hear yer name, you can' t see yer face | |
| You gotta look some other place | |
| And where do you look for this hope that yer seekin' | |
| Where do you look for this lamp that' s aburnin' | |
| Where do you look for this oil well gushin' | |
| Where do you look for this candle that' s glowin' | |
| Where do you look for this hope that you know is there | |
| And out there somewhere | |
| And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads | |
| Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows | |
| Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways | |
| You can touch and twist | |
| And turn two kinds of doorknobs | |
| You can either go to the church of your choice | |
| Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital | |
| You' ll find God in the church of your choice | |
| You' ll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State Hospital | |
| And though it' s only my opinion | |
| I may be right or wrong | |
| You' ll find them both | |
| In the Grand Canyon | |
| At sundown |
| Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie | |
| Boby Dylan | |
| When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb | |
| When you think you' re too old, too young, too smart or too dumb | |
| When yer laggin' behind an' losin' yer pace | |
| In a slowmotion crawl of life' s busy race | |
| No matter what yer doing if you start givin' up | |
| If the wine don' t come to the top of yer cup | |
| If the wind' s got you sideways with with one hand holdin' on | |
| And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone | |
| And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it | |
| And the wood' s easy findin' but yer lazy to fetch it | |
| And yer sidewalk starts curlin' and the street gets too long | |
| And you start walkin' backwards though you know its wrong | |
| And lonesome comes up as down goes the day | |
| And tomorrow' s mornin' seems so far away | |
| And you feel the reins from yer pony are slippin' | |
| And yer rope is aslidin' ' cause yer hands are adrippin' | |
| And yer sundecked desert and evergreen valleys | |
| Turn to broken down slums and trashcan alleys | |
| And yer sky cries water and yer drain pipe' s apourin' | |
| And the lightnin' s aflashing and the thunder' s acrashin' | |
| And the windows are rattlin' and breakin' and the roof tops ashakin' | |
| And yer whole world' s aslammin' and bangin' | |
| And yer minutes of sun turn to hours of storm | |
| And to yourself you sometimes say | |
| " I never knew it was gonna be this way | |
| Why didn' t they tell me the day I was born" | |
| And you start gettin' chills and yer jumping from sweat | |
| And you' re lookin' for somethin' you ain' t quite found yet | |
| And yer kneedeep in the dark water with yer hands in the air | |
| And the whole world' s awatchin' with a window peek stare | |
| And yer good gal leaves and she' s long gone aflying | |
| And yer heart feels sick like fish when they' re fryin' | |
| And yer jackhammer falls from yer hand to yer feet | |
| And you need it badly but it lays on the street | |
| And yer bell' s bangin' loudly but you can' t hear its beat | |
| And you think yer ears might a been hurt | |
| Or yer eyes' ve turned filthy from the sightblindin' dirt | |
| And you figured you failed in yesterdays rush | |
| When you were faked out an' fooled white facing a four flush | |
| And all the time you were holdin' three queens | |
| And it' s makin you mad, it' s makin' you mean | |
| Like in the middle of Life magazine | |
| Bouncin' around a pinball machine | |
| And there' s something on yer mind you wanna be saying | |
| That somebody someplace oughta be hearin' | |
| But it' s trapped on yer tongue and sealed in yer head | |
| And it bothers you badly when your layin' in bed | |
| And no matter how you try you just can' t say it | |
| And yer scared to yer soul you just might forget it | |
| And yer eyes get swimmy from the tears in yer head | |
| And yer pillows of feathers turn to blankets of lead | |
| And the lion' s mouth opens and yer staring at his teeth | |
| And his jaws start closin with you underneath | |
| And yer flat on your belly with yer hands tied behind | |
| And you wish you' d never taken that last detour sign | |
| And you say to yourself just what am I doin' | |
| On this road I' m walkin', on this trail I' m turnin' | |
| On this curve I' m hanging | |
| On this pathway I' m strolling, in the space I' m taking | |
| In this air I' m inhaling | |
| Am I mixed up too much, am I mixed up too hard | |
| Why am I walking, where am I running | |
| What am I saying, what am I knowing | |
| On this guitar I' m playing, on this banjo I' m frailin' | |
| On this mandolin I' m strummin', in the song I' m singin' | |
| In the tune I' m hummin', in the words I' m writin' | |
| In the words that I' m thinkin' | |
| In this ocean of hours I' m all the time drinkin' | |
| Who am I helping, what am I breaking | |
| What am I giving, what am I taking | |
| But you try with your whole soul best | |
| Never to think these thoughts and never to let | |
| Them kind of thoughts gain ground | |
| Or make yer heart pound | |
| But then again you know why they' re around | |
| Just waiting for a chance to slip and drop down | |
| " Cause sometimes you hear' em when the night times comes creeping | |
| And you fear that they might catch you asleeping | |
| And you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin' | |
| And you can' t remember for the best of yer thinking | |
| If that was you in the dream that was screaming | |
| And you know that it' s something special you' re needin' | |
| And you know that there' s no drug that' ll do for the healin' | |
| And no liquor in the land to stop yer brain from bleeding | |
| And you need something special | |
| Yeah, you need something special all right | |
| You need a fast flyin' train on a tornado track | |
| To shoot you someplace and shoot you back | |
| You need a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler | |
| That' s been banging and booming and blowing forever | |
| That knows yer troubles a hundred times over | |
| You need a Greyhound bus that don' t bar no race | |
| That won' t laugh at yer looks | |
| Your voice or your face | |
| And by any number of bets in the book | |
| Will be rollin' long after the bubblegum craze | |
| You need something to open up a new door | |
| To show you something you seen before | |
| But overlooked a hundred times or more | |
| You need something to open your eyes | |
| You need something to make it known | |
| That it' s you and no one else that owns | |
| That spot that yer standing, that space that you' re sitting | |
| That the world ain' t got you beat | |
| That it ain' t got you licked | |
| It can' t get you crazy no matter how many | |
| Times you might get kicked | |
| You need something special all right | |
| You need something special to give you hope | |
| But hope' s just a word | |
| That maybe you said or maybe you heard | |
| On some windy corner ' round a wideangled curve | |
| But that' s what you need man, and you need it bad | |
| And yer trouble is you know it too good | |
| " Cause you look an' you start getting the chills | |
| " Cause you can' t find it on a dollar bill | |
| And it ain' t on Macy' s window sill | |
| And it ain' t on no rich kid' s road map | |
| And it ain' t in no fat kid' s fraternity house | |
| And it ain' t made in no Hollywood wheat germ | |
| And it ain' t on that dimlit stage | |
| With that halfwit comedian on it | |
| Ranting and raving and taking yer money | |
| And you thinks it' s funny | |
| No you can' t find it in no night club or no yacht club | |
| And it ain' t in the seats of a supper club | |
| And sure as hell you' re bound to tell | |
| That no matter how hard you rub | |
| You just ain' t agonna find it on yer ticket stub | |
| No, and it ain' t in the rumors people' re tellin' you | |
| And it ain' t in the pimplelotion people are sellin' you | |
| And it ain' t in no cardboardbox house | |
| Or down any movie star' s blouse | |
| And you can' t find it on the golf course | |
| And Uncle Remus can' t tell you and neither can Santa Claus | |
| And it ain' t in the cream puff hairdo or cotton candy clothes | |
| And it ain' t in the dime store dummies or bubblegum goons | |
| And it ain' t in the marshmallow noises of the chocolate cake voices | |
| That come knockin' and tappin' in Christmas wrappin' | |
| Sayin' ain' t I pretty and ain' t I cute and look at my skin | |
| Look at my skin shine, look at my skin glow | |
| Look at my skin laugh, look at my skin cry | |
| When you can' t even sense if they got any insides | |
| These people so pretty in their ribbons and bows | |
| No you' ll not now or no other day | |
| Find it on the doorsteps made outa paper mache | |
| And inside it the people made of molasses | |
| That every other day buy a new pair of sunglasses | |
| And it ain' t in the fiftystar generals and flippedout phonies | |
| Who' d turn yuh in for a tenth of a penny | |
| Who breathe and burp and bend and crack | |
| And before you can count from one to ten | |
| Do it all over again but this time behind yer back | |
| My friend | |
| The ones that wheel and deal and whirl and twirl | |
| And play games with each other in their sandbox world | |
| And you can' t find it either in the notalent fools | |
| That run around gallant | |
| And make all rules for the ones that got talent | |
| And it ain' t in the ones that ain' t got any talent but think they do | |
| And think they' re foolin' you | |
| The ones who jump on the wagon | |
| Just for a while ' cause they know it' s in style | |
| To get their kicks, get out of it quick | |
| And make all kinds of money and chicks | |
| And you yell to yourself and you throw down yer hat | |
| Sayin', " Christ do I gotta be like that | |
| Ain' t there no one here that knows where I' m at | |
| Ain' t there no one here that knows how I feel | |
| Good God Almighty | |
| THAT STUFF AIN' T REAL" | |
| No but that ain' t yer game, it ain' t even yer race | |
| You can' t hear yer name, you can' t see yer face | |
| You gotta look some other place | |
| And where do you look for this hope that yer seekin' | |
| Where do you look for this lamp that' s aburnin' | |
| Where do you look for this oil well gushin' | |
| Where do you look for this candle that' s glowin' | |
| Where do you look for this hope that you know is there | |
| And out there somewhere | |
| And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads | |
| Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows | |
| Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways | |
| You can touch and twist | |
| And turn two kinds of doorknobs | |
| You can either go to the church of your choice | |
| Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital | |
| You' ll find God in the church of your choice | |
| You' ll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State Hospital | |
| And though it' s only my opinion | |
| I may be right or wrong | |
| You' ll find them both | |
| In the Grand Canyon | |
| At sundown |