It's easy to get hung up On your way to Santa Fe They'll give you whiskey, wine and women And they'll send you on your way Get out to the desert Out to where it's flat You can see the highest wave Slowly rolling back All your earthly pleasures They've got on coast to coast If you just give your money To the man who wants it most You can taste it in the water You can feel it in the air People go on living And no one seems to care The happy married couple Is just a relic of the past Things we build to live on Sure weren't built to last Coming close to comfort But never feeling free Trying to remember The way things used to be You can't fight temptation Everywhere you turn Willing to take chances And seeing what you'll learn There aint nothing to it You don't already know What taught you that golden rule When you were five years old? Losing your connections To the friends you used to know It don't seem like they're distant But you know they're never close Tripping in Las Vegas Or stumbling in New Orleans You're thinking that you made it But you're living in a dream Don't like what you're getting You don't like what you've been told You wanna start forgetting So you hit the road For some pretty piece of country Or a quiet simple land But speaking to you something That you can't understand