When I was young. I watched the cars. When I was older. I drank in bars. When I was young. I chewed the leaves. When I was older. I drank with thieves. I found a love. She gave me dreams. She left me drunk. In New Orleans. So cold and lonely. So all alone. I wished my heart. Was made of stone. I took the cold bright needle. I used it as a sword. My eyes have seen the glory of. The coming of the Lord. I burned across the delta. I swam across the ford. My eyes have seen the glory of. The coming of the Lord. When I was a young man. Standing on this road. My empty belly. An aching hole. An old man said to me. "Kid don't you know. That it's the same. Wherever you go". I gambled in two graveyards. I won against the odds. With the smiling saints. And the silent saviours. With the maggots and the gods. I cursed the things they showed me. I could never see again. And the howling of the wind at night. I wrote upon the rain. I found the thing. For which I prayed. And came back home. To the USA. With a heart of stone. And now I know. That it's the same. Wherever you go.