Erase My Mind Lyrics

I've been dreaming about tomorrow since the day that I was born

I've forced out laughter when I wanted to mourn

I've read and memorized the holy books

Realized they were written and sold by crooks

And I'm kind of fed up with the world as it is

I'm going to empty my cup just like it was his

Gonna leave all this trouble and strife behind

If I met you in a run down alley with a bottle of gin

Would you come on in and erase my mind

Well I was born a pauper to a beggar's son

The best years of my life were spent on the run

Trying hard to examine my dreams like a map

At a road side bar with my drink in my lap

Guess I'm silly and vain to expect something more

Than a walk in the rain with a desperate whore

With my eyes wide open I'm deaf dumb and blind

If I met you in a run down alley with a bottle of gin

Would you come on in and erase my mind

I can't quite feel the night in my brain anymore

Every time I get tight I just head for the door

Every time I get lost I just pick up some dirt

Rub it into my face and then spit on my shirt

Watch the candles of love burn to stories of pain

Watch the whole of humanity run down the drain

Now you're lying there naked and you say you're my kind

If I met you in a run down alley with a bottle of gin

Would you come on in and erase my mind

If I met you in an uptown theater would you give me a smile?

Or in the welfare lines with my clothes out of style

If ran you down while you were crossing the street

Would you hire a lawyer make me beg at your feet

And if you gave our love a half a chance honey you might find

If you met me in a run down alley with a bottle of gin

I'd come on in and erase your mind