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