The Wanderer

	  		
		 
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 I went out walking through streets paved with gold, 
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 lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones of a city without a soul. 

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 I went out walking under an atomic sky, 
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 where the ground won't turn, and the rain it burns 
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 like the tears when I said goodbye. 
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 Yeah, I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you, 
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 I went wandering. 

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 I went drifting through the capitals of tin, 
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 where men can't walk, or freely talk, and sons turn their fathers in. 

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 I stopped outside a church house, where the citizens like to sit, 
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 they say they want the kingdom, but they don't want God in it. 

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 I went out riding down that ol' eight lane, 
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 I passed by a thousand signs looking for my own name. 
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 I went with nothing, but the thought you'd be there, too, 
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 looking for you. 

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    I went out there in search of experience, 
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 to taste and to touch and to feel as much 
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  as a man can  before he repents. 

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 I went out searching, lookin' for one good man, 
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 a spirit who would not bend or break, 
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 who would sit at his father's right hand. 

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 I went out walking with a Bible and a gun, 
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 the word of God lay heavy on my heart, I was sure I was the one. 

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 Now, Jesus, don't you wait up, Jesus, I'll be home soon, 
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 yeah, I went out for the papers, told her I'd be back by noon. 
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 Yeah, I left with nothing, but the thought you'd be there, too, 
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 looking for you. 
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 Yeah, I left with nothing, nothing but the thought of you, 
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 I went wandering. 

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