Know My Way Home Lyrics

I was on my own, wandering the oceanside

Looking for a home, following the ones who died

I was camping out behind the Maritime Museum

With a ripped-up old copy of Moby Dick in my hand

And I tried to get inside

Didn't have any money, but I tried

She said, kid, you better come back with some money

So I went looking for a job on a fishing boat

Didn't have the know-how

All I had was one big romance in my head and now

I'm a summertime away from an empty box

Will the gambling ever pay for the homicidal thoughts for my crew

I'm looking at you

You stink and you snore and you're terrible dudes

But I intend to come back with some money

Wherever I go, I'll never be lost

Unless the sun decides to rise in the north

I will know my way home

When the working is done, I will know my way home

California dreaming in the summertime

Had to hitch my way out

I met the medicine man, he gave me mushrooms and the road got loud

And the new Pacific was an ice-skating rink

And the mounds of sea and anemones made me think about

Towers crumbling down as all cities and settlements eventually drown

And how I had to go pay for some money

Wherever I go, I'll never be lost

Unless the sun decides to rise in the north

I will know my way home

When the working is done, I will know my way home

And the finest writing I ever did was in Mexico

Lost my book, left it on a telephone booth at a wedding

Went to look at a pretty little lady in a purple dress

And then I 'membered what I 'bandoned

And when I wrote down some address

And I'll never make a dime from any literary journal

Never publish a line, it's downhill from here

I'll never make any money

Cold coffee and a murdered fern

I got some memories a nazi would burn

Oh, it's a long road to the center of the earth

But for a while I was carving the turns

I got yesterday to reckon with

I carry a curse, I'm east of Eden

And the gate is a sword

I'm a lonesome pilgrim

And tomorrow I could be with the Lord

So ever onward to the light I am running

Wherever I go, I'll never be lost

Unless the sun decides to rise in the north

I will know my way home

When the working is done, I will know my way home

Wherever I go, I'll never be lost

Unless the sun decides to rise in the north

I will know my way home

When the working is done, I will know my way home

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