What's Going On Part Two Lyrics

I've been out on my own for twenty long years

Through jealousy laughter corruption and tears

Smoking Marborol cigarettes and pouring down beers

Taming my conscience and fighting my fears

From upstate New York to Texas I flew

A traveling man with a touch of the flu

Fort Worth Euless and Illinois too

Sparta Mascoutah and my life with you

I don't know what but something's wrong

Cause I've been wondering for oh so long

And I pour my heart out in a song

Play my guitar and sing it strong

Until I find out what's going on

I'll play my guitar and you can sing along

Until we find out what's going on

I've been in and out of the strangest bars

Driven station wagons and foreign cars

Picked through the garbage and danced on the stars

Collecting peanut butter and jelly jars

Washing dishes and mopping floors

Serving drinks to children and restless whores

Selling comic books and doing household chores

Searching for something I never find in stores

I don't know what but something's wrong

Cause I've been wondering for oh so long

And I pour my heart out in a song

Play my guitar and sing it strong

Until I find out what's going on

I'll play my guitar and you can sing along

Until we find out what's going on

It's been going on since I wrote this song

In a linoleum hallway with my sweat suit on

The names have changed and the people are gone

We've got virtual reality instead of pong

We've got mtv and the Internet

You can watch the world through a tv set

Never leave the house never get upset

Kinda makes me wonder makes me want to forget

I don't know what but something's wrong

Cause I've been wondering for oh so long

And I pour my heart out in a song

Play my guitar and sing it strong

Until I find out what's going on

I'll play my guitar and you can sing along

Until we find out what's going on

When I think of the past I just rub my eyes

Was it some kind of dream or a cheap disguise

Cockroaches spiders and obnoxious flies

Me in the middle of a thousand lies

When I think of the future I flinch and squirm

My pen like a microscope viewing a germ

A desperate politician serving out his term

Or a hard luck fisherman blaming it all on the worm

I don't know what but something's wrong

Cause I've been wondering for oh so long

And I pour my heart out in a song

Play my guitar and sing it strong

Until I find out what's going on

I'll play my guitar and you can sing along

Until we find out what's going on

It's a long hard road and a nursery rhyme

A cheap hotel and a senseless crime

Spending a dollar to get back a dime

Counting the minutes and ignoring the time

I watched the Soviet Union crumble and fall

And a few months later the Berlin Wall

I found me a phone booth there was no one to call

Now I'm sitting her trying to make some sense of it all

I don't know what but something's wrong

Cause I've been wondering for oh so long

And I pour my heart out in a song

Play my guitar and sing it strong

Until I find out what's going on

I'll play my guitar and you can sing along

Until we find out what's going on

People are strange that you can't deny

Tell you that they love you and kiss you goodbye

Put their faith in the things that they buy

Lose their virtue without ever knowing why

I don't know what but something's wrong

Cause I've been wondering for oh so long

And I pour my heart out in a song

Play my guitar and sing it strong

Until I find out what's going on

I'll play my guitar and you can sing along

Until we find out what's going on