So I'm goin' down this street   and I'm tryin' not to smile   'Cause the street is where I'm goin'   And the curb is at the side   By the sewer   where the rain goes down      Like this girl I once knew   'Cause the sewer is so hollow   and the yell   could last forever      Like the night my girl went away   Gone off in a world filled with stuff   Lights start changin'   And there's wires in the air   And the asphalt man,   is all around me      And I look down   and my shoes are so far away from me, man   I can't believe it      I got a real indication   of a laugh comin' on      That old wind   is howling like a cold steel train   Girl has left me   Not comin' back again      Got rusted bullet holes in the Dodge   And a heartburn like a solar flare   The grass by the house is dry, man      And a horsefly   buzzes   by the big mistake In the distance , man,   I see myself start to smile      I got a real indication of a laugh comin' on