Tell me the truth, how do you feel?

Like you're rollin' so fast that you're spinnin' your wheels?

Don't feel too bad, you're not all along

We're all tryin' to get along

With ev'rybody else try'n' to go their way

You're bound to get tripped, and what can you say?

Just go along 'til they turn out the lights

There's nothin' we can do to fight it



No man's got it made till he's far beyond the pain

And we who must remain go on living just the same



I once knew a man, very talented guy

He's sing for the people and people would cry

They knew that his song came from deep down inside

You could hear it in his voice and see it in his eyes



And so he traveled along, touch your heart, then be gone

Like a flower, he bloomed till that old hickory wind

Called him home



My man's got it made

He's gone far beyond the pain

And we who must remain go on living just the same

We who must remain go on laughing just the same