Tell me the truth, how do you feel?
  Like you're rollin' so fast that you're spinnin' your wheels?
  Don't feel too bad, you're not all along
  We're all tryin' to get along
  With ev'rybody else try'n' to go their way
  You're bound to get tripped, and what can you say?
  Just go along 'til they turn out the lights
  There's nothin' we can do to fight it
    No man's got it made till he's far beyond the pain
  And we who must remain go on living just the same
    I once knew a man, very talented guy
  He's sing for the people and people would cry
  They knew that his song came from deep down inside
  You could hear it in his voice and see it in his eyes
    And so he traveled along, touch your heart, then be gone
  Like a flower, he bloomed till that old hickory wind
  Called him home
    My man's got it made
  He's gone far beyond the pain
  And we who must remain go on living just the same
  We who must remain go on laughing just the same