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Well, I went to New Orleans, sling-shot through the air

And I let the hot peppers burn a hole in my tongue

I went back to my birthplace and my first taste of air

So I could bury my blues in the sound of the accordion

I went looking for my lost home in the rising sun

I went to the corner where my pa painted portraits

And I looked for the woman who sold him his brushes

Not much had changed since all of those rites of passage

The mimes in the quarter sold me fresh flowers from their buckets

And under their greasy smiles I found their frowns

And under their frowns ghost of smiles

Well the pagans they sprang from the woodwork and shadows

And somebody shouted «boy, get out of the street»

Some children threw water from a two-story window

It splashed at my ankles and then it turned into steam

And I heard somebody laughing so it turned to see

But when I looked up that fire escape they turned their backs on me

So I left for alabama, land of the red clay

Where the kudzu crawls consuming all the dead and all the living

Where the water moccasins slither in the creek

And the sun is the bright hammer that bruises everything

And I saw my life go by in reverse

And I followed it down to the crossroads

I watched my mother’s first house burn to the ground

And my sacred old trailer was hitched and picked clean

I found the graveyard where the weeds split the stones

And felt the parents of my parents standing under my feet

And they were holding me up, you might say

So I drove parallel to a montgomery train

And I delivered myself back to the midwest

I arrived in the night while my brothers were asleep

I said the reconstruction failed again but i passed the test

I went looking for my lost home in the rising sun

I went looking for my lost home and found none

I went looking for my lost home and found none

But now I can sleep wherever I lay my body down

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