Way Down
© John Prine
Chorus:
Way down
Way down it must be
I can't stop this misery
It must be way downSpring is just a smile away
Laughing at a summer day
Turn around Look at fall
Winter, hear my lonely call
Way down ...The air is thin and the sky is fat
I'm gonna buy me a brand new hat
Wear it out and go insane
Christ, I hope it never rains
Way down ...Thought I saw a neon sign
Flash my name With the time
Probably didn't see a thing
Crazy dreams and a broken wing
Way down ...How ya' gonna get sunshine
Peeking thru Venetian blinds
Don't you know all that fear
Begins and ends the same place
Here
Way down ...
Now it's the
Prepare to grapple with your limitations today, PHILLIP. Your ideas are wonderful, but they're impossible to accomplish! At least, that's what you are likely to hear if you are overly insistent today. Either you'll have to sharpen your powers of persuasion, or you'll have to go back to the drawing board! In any case, the horizon is cloudy for the moment.