I can't explain why I'll be leaving you today, again
I know you'll wait, you probably shouldn't stay
Mmmm, but then
You'll walk with me again a while
Talk with me again awhile
Lay me down again awhile before I go
And say goodbye again
Your straight suburban friends keep asking why
You want a man that writes and sings
Instead of furs and j**els and country clubs and yachts...and things
We've been right for much too long
Simple words that make us wrong
I'll be home where I belong to lay me down
And make a song again
And at times it's sometimes been
like the sands of dunes of change...and shifts
and then again, sometimes have been a honeymoon exchange... an' gifts
though this potluck life has knocked me down;
looking up off the ground,
I think that I should lay me down to bleed a while
And rise and try again
Getting burned by city lights,
Hard road days and lonely nights
Wish I may, I wish I might
Just lay me down and make it right again
I shall lay me down and bleed a while
And rise and try again