Desolation Road

Desolation Road

I didn't know where I was goin'
So tired of them tryin' to sell me
That garbage they kept on throwin'
Just cut me loose and turn me free

I've been to Hell and back again
all my wild oats have been sowed
The party's finally over for now
as I head down Desolation Road

The road is a sad and lonely place
She asks much from a kid half grown
I'm just another drifter with no face
Another loser, destination unknown

I'm headed for a mysterious place
no one to help me with this load
but I'll know it when I get there
at the end of Desolation Road

There's little hope and too much pain
miles of blacktop and railroad tracks
for yet another player in the game
with a cold wind howlin' at his back

I saw my friend the homeless man
he was lookin' worn and old
eatin from a dirty filthy dumpster
he's on a trip down Desolation Road

Ma dead and Pa had a shot or two
I had no reason to stay any longer
The lessons of life can be so cruel
They make the tough a lot stronger

They say you'll never get through life
until you have a simple code
it's not what you reap or what you owe
when you live on Desolation Road

I'm pickin' butts up from the street
and smokin' them quite happily
one of those simple little pleasures
for I know they are for free

Right now there ain't much of me left
for others out alone and in the cold
This young heart's a victim of theft
headin' down lonely Desolation road.