The city streets are full of people going Nowhere making time The change from night to day is really only hours Won't somebody throw me down a line They say some days you're gonna win They say some days you're gonna lose I tell you I got news for you

My troubles test me on the daily They say that only God can save me I think I'm slowly going under But I won't ever tell my brother And now I wonder where's the good gone? 'Cause I can't find no miracles 'til I go home Oh, I wonder where's the good gone?

I can see the lights in front of me Free yourself to be yourself Hey now, do you know my name Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes I see it The lights of home If only you could If only you could see yourself

They poured across the borders We were cautioned to surrender This I could not do Into the hills I vanished No one ever asks me Who I am or where I'm going But those of you who know You cover up my footprints I have changed my name so often

Ain't no going back now This is the line and I walk alone Know where I wanna be, but I'm far from home Just trying to make it on my own And unless they send me clothes, I don't answer phones This is the line, and I walk alone Don't know where I'm at now

Where does everybody going when they go Let me ask you I am here, I am here I've already seen the bottom, so there's nothing to fear I know that I'll be ready when the devil is near All of this wrong, but I'm still right here I don't have the answers,