The party is over and I'm heading south I'm leaving the city I've got to get out Over and over and over it goes They get tired of the living before we get old The brave and the braver and the bravest and me Set off in a little boat straight out to sea A rolling and a rolling and a rolling away The tide would deliver us but I don't know which way Oh what a day it's been You could live for a life that you'll never see Just like a vagabond we stumbled through the brush Broken and empty we settled in the dust Lazy and loaded and lifeless I was I didn't stop to think of the cost Oh let the light in, you don't always win But now I'm alive let me begin Where shall we go and how will we know and how will I get there? I couldn't let go The sweet and the sweeter and the sweetest I've known Came by in the winter, came to carry me Out of the backwoods where the wild winds would roam They would cry for the summer, where did it go?