The Beaten Side of Town

I woke up this morning from a crazy dream
 The Earth was a turning ball of fire
 Satan and the Pilgrims had wiped the sea
 And I became their twisted gun for hire
 Don't let 'em getcha, boy, now you shall be(?)
 The lights that're coming round again
 "Run like a demon, boy," is what they said
 And then began to count from one 'til ten
 So now I'm tryin' to get out of the city
 You know where right can be found
 The beaten side of town
 Will never let you down
 
 I woke up this morning from a crazy dream
 The Earth was a burning ball of fire
 I crawled right inside the spaces in-between
 A miracle of science to admire
 But everybody knows the way the story goes
 She'll love you once and leave you once again
 The wind sends a shiver from your head to toes
 Whispers that you've reached your living end
 So now I'm tryin' to get out of the city
 You know where right can be found
 The beaten side of town
 Don't never let me down
 I woke up this morning from a crazier dream
 The Earth was a churning ball of fire
 The drug and us which (garbled)
 As I swam upstream
 And then I saw a temple with a spire
 There was a sign saying "welcome all you deists agnostics and buddhists? s and? s christians? s junkies and wreckerheads bluelights and deadbeats, homos and heteros and negroes and downlows
 Speed-freaks and tweakers, pimps without sneakers, the handy the pure and the atheist nerhu? and the peoples from countries in far-away places, stupid ideas that the public embraces"
 We all were? with? and?
 But that was ONLY A DREAM
 The beaten side of town
 And now I'm goin' down.