I've been working downtown inside my troubles   I've been working downtown inside my troubles   I've been sleeping under the bridge of highway 1   And I don't know who my savior is   As tears roll by      Oh dear heart I know it's been a long time   And the pendulum swings so wide   I've been wrestling with the burning spear   With the burning spear   Don't want to be like this another year   As tears roll by      I could never see your perfect rainbow   Avalanche buried me deep in the snow   Murky smoke stack made me fall   Cold ambition written on my wall   I got mixed up and fell down   I got mixed up   As years roll by      I could be a patriot if I could see   But the T.V. talkin' man make no sense to me    And I don't know where our savior lives   And I don't know where my savior is   Building up, building down   As tears roll by      Gotta keep my spirit out of trouble   Keep myself out of trouble   But the hands of need are calling me   I feel mortality   Tumble down, tumble down   As years roll by      They were building a building like forever   Heads buried deep inside a fever   The spirit cried out from the ground   Sweet, sweet maternal sounds   Tumble, tumble, tumble down tumble to the ground   As fears roll by   As tears roll by, as tears roll by, as tears roll by, as tears roll by