Off He Goes - Live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA - July 1998

Know a man his face seemed pulled and tense
 Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
 So I approach with tact
 Suggest that 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
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 He's yet to come back
 But I've seen his picture
 It doesn't look the same up on the racks
 Oh, 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
 There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
 And there he goes
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 Oh, and now I rub my eyes for he has returned
 It 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