I was turned out of Cafe Cologne As the sun came up the co*k was crowing And the ground kept swaying underneath my feet All the drifters are Americans Chasing dreams to Amsterdam Stumbling briskly past me on the street And I've got this feeling in my heart That it's time to raise the blinds and change the scene And down the road I'm going I paint miracles on pavements
And don't expect no payment Unless of course the stranger's feeling kind I've lived this way for years and years And sometimes shed a madman's tears But my head's bursting with life most of the time And I've got this feeling in my heart That it's time to raise the blinds and change the scene And down the road I'm going