Wrecking Ball - Hard Working Americans

Look out boys, 'I'm a rollin' stone

That’s what I was when I first left home

I took every secret that I’d ever known

And headed for the wall

Like a wrecking ball

Started down the road to sin

Playin' bass under a pseudonym

The days were rough and it’s all quite dim

But my mind cuts through it all

Like a wrecking ball

I was just a little deadhead

Who is watching, who is watching?

I was just a little deadhead

I won a dollar on a scholarship

Well, I got tired and let my average slip

Then I’s a farmer in the pogonip

Where the weed that I recall

Was like a wrecking ball

I met a lovesick daughter of the San Joaquin

She showed me colors I’d never seen

Drank the bottom out of my canteen

Then left me in the fall

Like a wrecking ball

Standin' there, in the morning mist

A Jack and Coke at the end of my wrist

Yes, I remember when first we kissed

Though it was nothing at all

Like a wrecking ball

Hey boys, just a little deadhead

Who’s watching, who’s watching?

I was just a little deadhead

With too much trouble for me to shake

Oh, the weather and the blindin' ache

I was ridin' high until the '89 quake

Hit the Santa Cruz shopping mall

Like a wrecking ball Hit the Santa Cruz shopping mall

Just like a wrecking ball Look out boys, 'I'm a rollin' stone

That’s what I been since I first left home

I took every secret that I’d ever known

And headed for the wall

Like a wrecking ball