The Ballad

Send someone out to get me in

I think it's starting to rain

Don't be rough

don't ask too many questions of me

I don't think I can stand

It's very late in the evening

& I see the sun it refuses to shine

if you believed everything you have said to me

why don't you understand

& I say to myself

this world ain't doing me too much good

I've lost my reasons

I stand out in the falling rain

I've been ten days in overdrive

I crawl the nearest wall

I don't know where it is I am going to

or where I've just come from

one more drink

might make me feel better

it is a friend when you are down

but one more drink will only bring me closer to

what it is I'm running from