Can't seem to settle down   Maybe I'll just hang around   But every time you pick me up   I guess I take you down   But here I am again   You'll take me back and then   It won't be long till I'll be gone   Upon my way again      So I spend my days thinkin' up new ways   To do the same old thing   Seasons come and go without a name   And I spend my nights in the bright spotlights   Wishin' I could let the people know   Can't win or lose unless you play the game      Sittin' in the airport, awaitin' on my plane   Nothin' to do for an hour or two   So I try to find a message in a picture I drew   In the corner of a letter from a boy I knew      Off the plane and through the rain into a limousine   The traffic's slow so I miss my show   But lookin' out the window somehow I know   That they're about to play my record   On the radio      So I write another song as I go along   To let you know just where I been   Don't want to meet myself at the masquerade   You can tell in the verse if I get worse   By the chorus I may be fine   A line, my friend, can end the kind charade      Layin' in my hotel room, wantin' to be alone   Needin' the time to rest my mind   But they bring in another stack of papers to sign   And L.A.'s awaitin' on the other line      So I'm packin' up and I'm checking out   I'm on the road again   Feeling like I'm bringing pen to mind   But the words will come to me in their own time   Tumbling and stumbling over in rhyme      And the ugliest word that I ever heard   My friends, is sacrifice   It's an easy out for all you should have been   And if there's one thing   That I just can't bring myself to compromise   It's blamin' somebody else for the state I'm in   Oh, but then again   Daddy never loved his baby girl, no how   Ah, what's the difference now