Go West

Safe on the interstate New York is three thousand miles away And I'm not looking forward to following through But it's better than always running back into you I've closed my eyes and my bank account And gone west, young man Take off the parking brake Go coasting into a different state And I'm not looking forward to missing you But I must have something better to do I've got to tear my life apart And go west, young man And it feels like I've got something to prove But in some ways it's just something to do My friends turn me around and say, "You go west, young man." Stepping down off my platform shoes Sixty-nine in the afternoon And I'm waiting for someone in the know Like Pirner tells me on the radio Says "Take it from someone who's been there before, You go west, young man." And I'm looking for somebody to do my thinking for me Till I come through The state-line highway sign says, "You have gone west, young man." And it feels like I've got something to prove But in some ways it's just something to do The state-line highway sign says, "You have gone west, young man."