I'm gonna rip myself a house in the shade of a freeway

When I pack my lunch in the morning and go to work each day

And when the evening rolls around I go home and lay my body down

And then the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again

I'm in, sit again, I'm in

I wanna know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring

Or they're only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening

I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye

When the morning light comes streaming in You get up and do it again

I'm in

Cart between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender

Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring and the junk man pounds his fender

Where the veterans dream of the fight fast asleep at the traffic light

And the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor

Out into the cool of the evening and strolls the pretender

He knows it all his hopes and dreams beginning and then

I've left all the lovers to stay right through the night

Leaving nothing living, nothing's like to choose off and fight

And tear up the world all their might while the ships bearing their feet say all at a sign

I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me what love means

And we're filling the missing colors in each other's paint by number teams

And we'll put our dark glasses on and we'll make love until our strength is gone

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