Safe on
The interstate
New York
Is three thousand miles away
And I´m not looking forward to following through
But it´s better than always running back into you
I´ve closed my eyes and my bank account
And gone west, young man

Take off
The parking brake
Go coasting
Into a different state
And I´m not looking forward to missing you
But I must have something better to do
I´ve got to tear my life apart
And go west, young man

And it feels like I´ve got something to prove,
But in some ways it´s just something to do
My friend´s turn me around and say
You go west, young man

Stepping
Down off my platform shoes
Sixty-
Nine in the afternoon
And I´m waiting for someone in the know
Like Pirnir tells me on the radio ed. note: this is the way it´s spelled
on the lyrics sheet. It may be "Pirner," as in Dave
Says take it from someone who´s been there before
You go west, young man

And I´m looking for somebody to do
My thinking for me ´till I come through
The state-line highway sign says
You have gone west, young man
And it feels like I´ve got something to prove
But in some ways it´s just something to do
The state-line highway sign says
You have gone west, young man