The Beaten Side of Town

I woke up this morning from a crazy dream

The Earth was a turning ball of fire

Satan and the Pilgrims had wiped the sea

And I became their twisted gun for hire

Don't let 'em getcha, boy, now you shall be(?)

the lights that're coming round again

"Run like a demon, boy," is what they said

and then began to count from one 'til ten

So now I'm tryin' to get out of the city

You know where right can be found

The beaten side of town

Will never let you down

I woke up this morning from a crazy dream

The Earth was a burning ball of fire

I crawled right inside the spaces in-between

A miracle of science to admire

But everybody knows the way the story goes

She'll love you once and leave you once again

The wind sends a shiver from your head to toes

Whispers that you've reached your living end

So now I'm tryin' to get out of the city

You know where right can be found

The beaten side of town

Don't never let me down

I woke up this morning from a crazier dream

The Earth was a churning ball of fire

The drug and us which (garbled)

as I swam upstream

And then I saw a temple with a spire

There was a sign saying "welcome all you deists agnostics and buddhists? s and? s christians? s junkies and wreckerheads bluelights and deadbeats, homos and heteros and negroes and downlows

Speed-freaks and tweakers, pimps without sneakers, the handy the pure and the atheist nerhu? and the peoples from countries in far-away places, stupid ideas that the public embraces"

We all were? with? and?

But that was ONLY A DREAM

The beaten side of town

And now I'm goin' down.