Desperate and Depressed

I'm pissed off at the number of people that I meet

Who go to shake my hand with a viper up their sleeve

They freeze me out in the winter, burn me up all summer

Try to take my money when I'm desperate and depressed, ain't it a mess?

I've played for free and paid for the miles on my truck

Got no sleep in the motel cause the worry keeps me up

It almost drives me crazy, thinking about my baby

And how he's gonna love me if I'm desperate and depressed, can't get no rest

Mama never told me that things would be this way

Daddy tried to warn me that there'd be hell to pay

But if I can't find the money, then I can't buy the time

I'm stuck here making someone else's dime

We bust in Sarasota, I made twenty-seven bucks

I wept for Richard Manuel thinking I might have his luck

You talk behind my back, why don't ya stab me in the front?

But don't think you can hurt me 'cause I'm desperate and depressed, ain't it a mess?

Oh, please somebody tell me, how to make it stop?

This world feels like a rollercoaster, I just can't get off

Tried rehab and probation, tried self-medication

But none of that can cure you when you're desperate and depressed, ain't it a mess?

Mama never told me that things would be this way

Daddy tried to warn me that there'd be hell to pay

But if I can't find the money, then I can't buy the lie

Oh, ten percent of nothing ain't a dime

So don't you try to sell me back what's mine

I'll be desperate and depressed until I die