It wasn't me, I wasn't there   I was just watching from over here   And besides, I couldn't afford the bus fare   In Hollywood and Washington   They shake and smile through the harm they've done   But it's your little red wagon and you gotta pull it      It'll take a lifetime to clear your name   Under the bridges of fame it's always nighttime   It wasn't me, I wasn't there   I was stone drunk, it isn't clear   And it doesn't count cause I don't care   The years transform my memories   Of all the countless decades of grief   It was cut and run in '91      Put yourselves in a straightjacket   But when you're pleading   Saying it's no cheaper than humiliation   That's free...   That's free...   That's free...      I've gone and quit my worshipping   Of the false gods and golden sins   Cause we've made love in the Tower of Babel and it fell down      It wasn't me, I wasn't there   That was not my love affair   That is not my lover, that's not even my friend   It wasn't me, I wasn't there   I was stone drunk, it isn't clear   And it doesn't count cause I don't care      But I use a pop song to clear my name   Under the bridges of fame it's always nighttime   I'll end with a closer, and say goodnight