Off He Goes

Know a man
 His face seems pulled and tense
 ♪
 Like he's riding on a motorbike
 In the strongest winds
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 So I approach with tact
 Suggest the he should relax
 But he's always moving much too fast
 Said he'll see me on the flip side
 On this trip he's taken for a ride
 He's been taking too much on
 There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
 ♪
 There he goes
 ♪
 He's yet to come back
 
 But I've seen his picture
 It doesn't look the same up on the rack
 ♪
 We go way back
 I wonder 'bout his insides
 It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
 He's been taken, where? I don't know
 Off he goes, with his perfectly unkept hope
 ♪
 There he goes
 ♪
 And now I rub my eyes
 For he has returned
 
 Seems my preconceptions are
 What should have been burned
 ♪
 For he still smiles
 And he's still strong
 
 Nothing's changed
 But the surrounding bullshit
 That has grown
 
 And now he's home and we're laughing
 Like we always did
 My same old, same old friend
 
 Until a quarter to ten
 
 I saw the strain creep in
 He seems distracted
 And I know just what is gonna happen next
 
 Before his first step
 
 He is off again
 
 Know a man
 His face seems pulled and tense
 ♪
 Like he's riding on a motorbike
 In the strongest winds
 ♪
 So I approach with tact
 Suggest the he should relax
 But he's always moving much too fast
 Said he'll see me on the flip side
 On this trip he's taken for a ride
 He's been taking too much on
 There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
 ♪
 There he goes
 ♪
 He's yet to come back
 
 But I've seen his picture
 It doesn't look the same up on the rack
 ♪
 We go way back
 I wonder 'bout his insides
 It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
 He's been taken, where? I don't know
 Off he goes, with his perfectly unkept hope
 ♪
 There he goes
 ♪
 And now I rub my eyes
 For he has returned
 
 Seems my preconceptions are
 What should have been burned
 ♪
 For he still smiles
 And he's still strong
 
 Nothing's changed
 But the surrounding bullshit
 That has grown
 
 And now he's home and we're laughing
 Like we always did
 My same old, same old friend
 
 Until a quarter to ten
 
 I saw the strain creep in
 He seems distracted
 And I know just what is gonna happen next
 
 Before his first step
 
 He is off again