When I want to go somewhere, I don't ask forgiveness   I just go where I like, and he knows that.   I walk alone into any party, I'm alone tonight   In that high-heeled ego old hat.   Oh blue night, laughter at the bell toll.   People move like streaks of charcoal.   Someone found a prince in the punchbowl.   But high times fizzle out in a change of heart,   And we know things fall apart.   The morning's off to a bad start.   It's raining. Have you had nights like this?   I run miles to his place, wake him up to look at his place.   I feel astray, and I love it when it gets that way.      The child is so young, they say that child is truly free   And with a mind of perpetual invention.   So why is it now I'm a grown-up, all grown up   And yet now I fly through the ceilings of convention?   Oh new friend, borne out of a mind-cloud.   Make believe and yet I laugh aloud.   I've cried when you have stood ground.   But sometimes playtimes are a ghost I've faced,   In that room that I've erased.   The air is empty and druglaced.   I am completely gone. Are you still with me, then?   With my head so big and awfully,   Take my hand and lead me softly,   And then you stay, and I love it when it gets that way.      And when I was crazy maybe I wanted, I wanted, I wanted to be steady as an iceberg,   And with nowhere fast a-going.   Now, now I can handle the danger zone with hailstones all a-flying,   And the crazy winds a-blowing.   These days I haven't been smoking my lungs brown,   Have that itch to turn my life around,   Maybe move on to a new town.   Cause good friends lifted me out of an early tomb.,   Pulled my life out from its doom,   Like sun into a big room   And where my roots have grown.   I really can't let go   Through the woods and through the fields climb   Up the mountain into nighttime, and   Through the day, and I love it when it gets that way.