To Ramona (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - February 28, 1978)

Ramona, come closer
Shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness
Will pass as your senses will rise

For the flowers of the city
Though breathlike, get deathlike at times
And there's no use in tryin' to deal with the dyin'
Though I cannot explain that in lines

Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss
As to be under the strength of your skin
Your magnetic movements still capture the minutes I'm in

But it grieves my heart, love
To see you tryin' to be a part of a world that just don't exist
It's all just a sheme, babe
A vacuum, a dream, babe
That sucks you into feelin' like this

I've heard you say many times that you're better than no one
And no one is better than you
If you really believe that
You know you got nothing to win and nothing to lose

From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel that you must be exactly like them

I'd forever talk to you, but soon these words
They would turn into a meaningless ring
For deep in my heart I know there is no help I can bring

Everything passes, everything changes
Do what you think you should do
And someday maybe
Who knows, baby
I'll come and be cryin' to you