I walked Harrison with blinders on So many nights over at George's bar Glasses of old style glow of jukebox lights Pictures of my past streaming back tonight ♪ Lonely Wabash under curving El Swimming aquatic of my brainwaves slow down The streets are soft and dead at 2 am Drunk/alone again at Jackson Underground ♪ Uptown sunset flooding from the West Noise rises to my window from the summer concrete I couldn't bring myself to love this girl At the airport I just let her go ♪ I was lost in the rye. ♪ The wind blows hard against my burning skin I'm just another misguided child of fiction School kids are shouting in the streets And I wish I was singing in their wide-eyed chorus ♪ These days I swim in disillusion At night I dream of possibilities This afternoon I'm stuck in raw nostalgia Have I arrived at all the wrong conclusions? ♪ Uptown sunset flooding from the west Noise rises to my window from the summer concrete I guess I didn't know how to love that girl High time for the dust to rest ♪ I was lost in the rye.