Reasons the World Goes Around

Slow trains old flames in far away places

City bars and beat up cars and faces

Bus stops and donut shops

Dirty dying town

Phone calls and union halls

rain falling down

Any penny anybody ever lost or found

These are the reasons the world goes around

Truck stops and crooked cops

And Sunday afternoons

Starry nights and neon lights

And landing on the moon

Hard times and heinous crimes

And tabloid magazines

Civil rights, black and whites

And television screens

Falling off an climbing up

And falling right back down

These are the reasons the world goes around

It's kind of like a secret everybody knows

If anything comes easy, well that's the way it goes

Everybody all the way from here to heaven knows

These are the reasons the world goes around

Laundromats and sewer rats

And fifteen flights of stairs

Being to crack house raids, rodeos, and fairs

Service halls and shopping malls

Cranky morning moods

Politics and hand-me-downs and dietary foods

Feeling like you're lucky when your feet are on the ground

These are the reasons that the world goes around

Silver guitars and fat cigars

And newspapers

Pawn shops and cash crops

Old calous towns

School yards and credit cards

An old gospel song

Living half your life to be remembered when you're gone

Building all them bridges and burning them back down

These are the reasons the world goes around

It's kind of like a secret everybody knows

If anything comes easy, well that's the way it goes

Everybody all the way from here to heaven knows

These are the reasons the world goes around