John Prine - Flashback Blues lyrics

While window shopping through the past I ran across a looking gla** Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light Tragic magic prayers of pa**ion Stay the same through changing fashions They freeze my mind like water on a winter's night Spent most of my youth Out hobo cruising And all i got for proof Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes So goodbye nonbeliever Don't you know that i hate to leave here So long babe, i got the flashback blues. Photographs show the laughs Recorded in between the bad times Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes Well, sure i made it but ya know it was as hell of a trip. Spent most of my youth Out hobo cruising And all i got for proof Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes And ten times what it grieves you That's how much more i hate to leave you now So long babe, i got the flashback blues. Spent most of my youth Out hobo cruising And all i got for proof Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes So goodbye nonbeliever Don't you know that i hate to leave here So long babe, i got the flashback blues.