Off He Goes (Live)

Know a man his face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's always moving much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride

He's been taking too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes

He's yet to come back
But I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the racks
Oh, we go way back
I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size

He's been taken where? I don't know
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
And there he goes

Oh, and now I rub my eyes for he has returned
It seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles and he's still strong
Nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit, that has grown

And now he's home, and we're laughing, like we always did
My same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten

I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is gonna happen next
Before his first step, he is off again