Lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus 1] 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, swam across the ford My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord [Verse 3] 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?" [Chorus 2] I gambled in two graveyards, won against the odds With saints and with saviors, 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 [Verse 4] I found the thing for which I prayed And came back home to the USA With a heart of stone so now I know That it's the same wherever you go [Refrain] Wherever you go Wherever you go Wherever you go Wherever you go [Outro] Down, down, hear it come down Down, down, hear it come down Down, down, hear it come down Down, down, hear it come down