Look out boys, 'I'm a rollin' stone
That's what I was when I first left home
I took every secret that I'd ever known
And headed for the wall
Like a wrecking ball
Started down the road to sin
Playin' bass under a pseudonym
The days were rough and it's all quite dim
But my mind cuts through it all
Like a wrecking ball
I was just a little deadhead
Who is watching, who is watching?
I was just a little deadhead
I won a dollar on a scholarship
Well, I got tired and let my average slip
Then I's a farmer in the pogonip
Where the weed that I recall
Was like a wrecking ball
I met a lovesick daughter of the San Joaquin
She showed me colors I'd never seen
Drank the bottom out of my canteen
Then left me in the fall
Like a wrecking ball
Standin' there, in the morning mist
A Jack and Coke at the end of my wrist
Yes, I remember when first we kissed
Though it was nothing at all
Like a wrecking ball
Hey boys, just a little deadhead
Who's watching, who's watching?
I was just a little deadhead
With too much trouble for me to shake
Oh, the weather and the blindin' ache
I was ridin' high until the '89 quake
Hit the Santa Cruz shopping mall
Like a wrecking ball Hit the Santa Cruz shopping mall
Just like a wrecking ball Look out boys, 'I'm a rollin' stone
That's what I been since I first left home
I took every secret that I'd ever known
And headed for the wall
Like a wrecking ball