The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.
A baby cries hard in an apartment complex,
As I pass in a car buried under the influence.
The city's driving me out of my mind.
I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree,
And lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.
A mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.
I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.
Well, I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled.
Weak from whiskey and pills, in a Chicago hospital.