Take a run round the cannery
Smells like death and fish today
What's left of humanity floats lifeless out here in the bay
Maybe I'll get a place round here
Two bedrooms and a sunset deck
Food is good, the ocean's near, enough to keep my soul in check
But I won't have a telephone
So no one can tell me how you are
Thousand miles from your home
Local bus won't go that far, that far
This could be the kind of place
Where I pretend that I fit in
No one asks me who I am
What I've done
Where I've been
Hang around for a couple of years
'Til the coast is clear, movin' 'long
You'll never find me here
We'll let the bygones be gone, be gone
Take a run to the Canyon Bridge
People living in a river bed
Dogs bark on the ridge
In a mockery of the things I said
Maybe I'll get a job 'round here
Run the lights in a discotech
Food is good and the girls are clear
Enough to keep my heart in check
But I won't have a stereo
So I can't play your favorite song
Burn the book where I keep my notes
About the way that I did you wrong, you wrong
This could be the kind of place
Where I pretend that I fit in
No one asks me who I am
What I've done
Where I've been
Head down to the local bar
Wish that I could drink that bottle there
Hang around with the movie stars
But the movie stars said I drank my share
Maybe I could find a girl who doesn't know what I put you through
Treat her like the queen of the world
Forget the way I treated you
Late at night when I call your name
She won't have to understand
About the ropes and all my hopes
Just how sorry that I am, that I am
This could be the kind of place
Where I pretend that I fit in
No one asks me who I am
What I've done
Where I've been
This could be the kind of place
Where I pretend that I fit in
No one asks me who I am
What I've done
Where I've been