Slow down mister, would you please?
Cold the wind and rain
Won't you take me in now before I freeze?
I can't go home again
I've had my fill of this winter town
Cold the wind and rain
It's pushed me back and it's slapped me down
I can't go home again
So I've tried all day to outrun this storm
Cold the wind and rain
Feels like years since I was warm
I can't go home again
Windows dark and the doors nailed tight
Cold the wind and rain
Neon flickers in the gusty night
I can't go home again
Empty hands held to a trash can fire
Cold the wind and rain
The wind howls and it laughs in the singing wires
I can't go home again
Hopeless faces pinched and gray
Cold the wind and rain
Saying "the meek shall inherit what we toss away"
I can't go home again
Slow down mister, would you please?
Give a boy a ride
I'm burning up with shame and need
I've nowhere left to hide
So I stand beneath this underpa**
Cold the wind and rain
In the dust and the cinders and the stink of gas
I can't go home again
Still the big trucks roll on through the night
Cold the wind and rain
Like Chinese Dragons with a thousand lights
I can't go home again
Cold this wind, cold this rain
Cold these outstretched hands
Cold the days left to me now
Running fast like sand
So I smile at strangers but they turn away
Cold the wind and rain
I'm dwindling with each pa**ing day
I can't go home again
So slow down mister, please, I cry
Cold the wind and rain
I'm as empty as this winter sky
I can't go home again