King Of The World

Jimmy said it's not easy being the king of the world

It gets harder every day

Somebody's gotta do the job, ya know?

So it might as well be me

Bought himself a one way ticket

On a greyhound bus bound for Santa Fe

Left everyone behind he'd ever known

Just faded away

Jimmy found himself

A lover down in Hollywood

He was a good man

As far as good men go, I guess

He sold system software

For a high tech firm down in the valley

She wrote him a letter

It went a little something like this

She said, "I had big dreams, big dreams, don't you know?

So hard to make these big dreams come true

Now I try to hold on to what we had the best I could

I find holdin' on is the hardest thing to do"

Oh, I ain't comin' home tonight

So don't wait up for me

No, I ain't coming home tonight

Well, I'm finally free

Was a guy that I met

One night in a bar in Colorado

He said, "Man, I got a gift

More like a curse, I must confess"

Said, "I can remember everybody's name

That I've ever met before in my life"

So I said, "Name everybody in your first grade class"

And he did, I guess

And then imagine all those names

Stretched out forever

Like the rays of light

From some long dead distant star

And I thought to myself

What have I done with this life of mine?

Besides finding myself in this smoke-filled bar

And I said

Oh, I ain't comin' home tonight

No, don't wait up for me

No, ma, I ain't comin' home tonight

Said I'm finally free, I'm finally free

And time rolls by like an old friend gone away

And I am just a mortal man

And death will be my final lover

And life will always be something that I'll, I'll never understand

Now I'm higher than a capitol building in downtown Austin

Freer than the west Texas wind

And I move down the street like a cloud moving

Across a clear blue sky

And I know I'll never feel this way again

Oh, I ain't coming home tonight

So don't wait up for me

No, I ain't coming home tonight, tonight

Oh, I'm finally free

I'm finally free

Finally free

Finally free

Finally free

Finally free

Finally free

Finally free

Finally free

I'm finally free