A Guy Named Joe

The wind has come to take me down a notch,

A peg, or a level or two

The swollen moon has got

Her sights set on me too

The devil sun gonna take me higher

Higher than I ever been before

I told my mama, no

I can’t take no more

I can’t take no more

The wind has come to take me down

To the empty farm where I grew up on the land

I build this childhood for a boy

With my own two hands

I look around, them bony trees

And sunken cows, there’s almost snow

Nobody knows nothing

Except what me and the crow do know

Who am I to change my life?

Who am I to fuck with form?

Who am I to weather a storm?

But I go slow

I said goodbye to everyone I know

And one morning I awoke

And I was this guy named Joe

The wind has come to take me down to the field

To dream by the light of the moon

No, there ain’t no coming home,

No going back, skipping June

I sit by the water down by the freeway

The coffee is hot and the corn is high

Don’t know what I’m going to do

With myself tonight

Who am I to change my name?

Some things will always stay the same

There really ain’t no one to blame

Can’t expect nobody to live in that pain

But I know you miss me so

I said goodbye to everyone I know

And one morning I awoke

And I was this guy named Joe

Rock & Roll is music

Rock & Roll is music

Rock & Roll is music now…