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