Pilgrim (You Can't Go Home)

I won't get drunk no more, no more, the old refrain it shines with use While you sop your bread in barley-wine, and mop your floor in tobacco juice So they kicked you out of paradise, grinned and locked the garden gate What those devils called your greatest sin, Gabriel and I called your great escape Where are you gonna run Tell me, where will you roam When you can't go home You can't go home Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home The gilded cage cannot contain the gypsies of the earth The poet and the tumbleweed discuss what rootlessness is worth And pity those who never felt inspiration's cold wet nose It wakes you up in the ditch where you're tumbling 'round where the four winds blow Where are you gonna run Tell me, where will you roam When you can't go home You can't go home Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home The polaroids of indio show desert flowers entwined Their nakedness has already been blasted by the sands of time But still you thought you sad Jane would wait for you till who knows when But that little girl's got a new tattoo to let you know you can't go home again Where are you gonna run Tell me, where will you roam When you can't go home You can't go home Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home So spin the wheel of St.Columba's and ride his golden calf Climb up the silver strings of the mandolin till you can hear the angels laugh And if rock and roll is more your thing, go ahead and wear the badge Cause chaos needs another king, a pillar of smoke who don't look back Where are you gonna run Tell me, where will you roam When you can't go home You can't go home Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home I'm dirty and torn, my tails hung out, a ship with tattered sails Been down and out, around the horn to chase the great white whale Across the night and across the day, I save my song for eternity Now here I find you gazing out of the window of St. James infirmary Where are you gonna run Tell me, where will you roam When you can't go home You can't go home Oh, pilgrim, you can't go home So keep rollin', rollin' down that road you're on Keep rollin', rollin' on, rollin' on Keep rollin', rollin' down that road that you're on Keep rollin', rollin', rollin' on