Jimmy said it's not easy being the king of the world   It gets harder every day   Somebody's gotta do the job, ya know?   So it might as well be me      Bought himself a one way ticket   On a greyhound bus bound for Santa Fe   Left everyone behind he'd ever known   Just faded away      Jimmy found himself   A lover down in Hollywood   He was a good man   As far as good men go, I guess      He sold system software   For a high tech firm down in the valley   She wrote him a letter   It went a little something like this      She said, "I had big dreams, big dreams, don't you know?   So hard to make these big dreams come true   Now I try to hold on to what we had the best I could   I find holdin' on is the hardest thing to do"      Oh, I ain't comin' home tonight   So don't wait up for me   No, I ain't coming home tonight   Well, I'm finally free      Was a guy that I met   One night in a bar in Colorado   He said, "Man, I got a gift   More like a curse, I must confess"      Said, "I can remember everybody's name   That I've ever met before in my life"   So I said, "Name everybody in your first grade class"   And he did, I guess      And then imagine all those names   Stretched out forever   Like the rays of light   From some long dead distant star      And I thought to myself   What have I done with this life of mine?   Besides finding myself in this smoke-filled bar   And I said      Oh, I ain't comin' home tonight   No, don't wait up for me   No, ma, I ain't comin' home tonight   Said I'm finally free, I'm finally free      And time rolls by like an old friend gone away   And I am just a mortal man   And death will be my final lover   And life will always be something that I'll, I'll never understand      Now I'm higher than a capitol building in downtown Austin   Freer than the west Texas wind   And I move down the street like a cloud moving   Across a clear blue sky   And I know I'll never feel this way again      Oh, I ain't coming home tonight   So don't wait up for me   No, I ain't coming home tonight, tonight   Oh, I'm finally free      I'm finally free   Finally free   Finally free   Finally free   Finally free   Finally free   Finally free   Finally free   I'm finally free