I Ain't Goin' Nowhere

It was the year of the metal rat
An ill wind from the east was in the air
I couldn't make no plans at all
I couldn't go nowhere

We're rats locked in our cages
Sometimes it feels okay to hide
I feel like I've been trapped for ages
By the emptiness inside

I ain't going nowhere
I ain't going nowhere
There's just nowhere to go

I was walking down the road in peace
Such a normal thing for a man to do
Up behind me roared the chief of police
And he said boy who the hell are you?

I asked the man who wants to know?
He just threw me to the ground
Where do you think you're going son?
We can't have this sort of walking around
And around and around and around and around and around

I ain't going nowhere
I ain't going nowhere
There's just nowhere to go

Freedom's just another word
When it's all you got to lose
And in my dreams
I fly so free
And I always get to choose
My own destiny

I used to have a dead end job
Seemed it was the best that I could do
But the place I worked just moved away
And so I moved in with you

We fought about the smallest things
I just don't need this strife
I went outside to clear my head
Then I got on with my life

But I ain't going nowhere
I ain't going nowhere
There's just nowhere to go

I ain't going nowhere
No I ain't going nowhere
And nowhere's just the place
I call home