Flashback Blues

[Verse 1]

While window shopping through the past

I ran across a looking glass

Reflecting moments remaining in a burned-out light

Tragic magic, prayers of passion

Stay the same through changing fashion

They freeze my mind like water on a winter's night

[Chorus]

Spent most of my youth out hobo cruising

And all I got for proof is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

So goodbye, nonbeliever

Don't you know that I hate to leave here

So long babe, I got the flashback blues

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]

Photographs show the laughs

Recorded in between the bad times

Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship

Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies

Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes

Well, sure I made it, but you know it was a hell of a trip

[Chorus]

Spent most of my youth out hobo cruising

And all I got for proof is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

And ten times what it grieves you

That's how much more I hate to leave you now

So long babe, I got the flashback blues

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Spent most of my youth out hobo cruising

And all I got for proof is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

So goodbye, nonbeliever

Don't you know that I hate to leave here

So long babe, I got the flashback blues