Come back we’ll start up it up clean
I filled the engine block with Listerine
In the streets we’re making the horns blow
Me & Jesus out here riding low
3 ghosts, they follow us around
The past, the present and our future clowns
* Told him all about you, he said you’d come back
And then he left in a cream Cadillac

You are the bottom and the top
The fast and the slow
Madonna in the morning
And the devil down below
The grass and the sky
The red and the green
But you are never are the yellow

I’m so tired of being a good, good soldier
Will it get better
When we get a little older
I’m so tired of being a good, good soldier
I just need these loving hands to hold her

I missed your call, I must’ve been driving
Back from this dive bar out there on the island
I went to church, I tried to stay clean
But then I lost my last shoulder to lean
* I’m on the outside again, a stranger looking in
Tomorrow I will call you back I really need a friend
I can’t stand straight on praying on wishes
Draggin’ ‘round this bag of superstitions

You are the bottom and the top
The fast and the slow
Madonna in the morning
And the devil down below
The grass and the sky
The red and the green
But you are never are the yellow

I’m so tired of being a good, good soldier
Will it get better
When we get a little older
I’m so tired of being a good, good soldier
I just need these loving hands to hold her

Oh man, there’s trouble downtown
Two boys in blue in blue found me wandering around
I was under your window last night
You were shining like the Christmas lights
* But my presents got returned and bridges got burns
How are we gonna unsend all those invitations
When I’m sleeping it off, I’ll survey the cost
Right now it’s hard to make these calculations

You are the bottom and the top
The fast and the slow
Madonna in the morning
And the devil down below
The grass and the sky
The red and the green
But you’re never in between

I’m so tired of being a good, good soldier
Will it get better
When we get a little older
I’m so tired of being a good, good soldier
I just need these loving hands to hold her