High Like a Mountain

Somewhere in the back of a dirty Cadillac.
A young man with a chick, got a needle in his arm.
Gonna take it all the way,
doesn't matter that you pay. Forget about most everything.

He's getting high like a mountain. Gonna take a holiday.
He's getting high like a mountain.
He's gonna throw his life away.

Lying in the bed,
word unfold that he was dead. Looking like a ghost in the flesh.
And now you know he's got the taste,
he's gotta have it every day. Baby, there ain't no turning back

He's getting high like a mountain. Gonna take a holiday.
He's getting high like a mountain.
He's gonna throw his life away.

(12 years old, behind a liquor store, having his first sip of alcohol.
On year later down by the river,
big boys lit up a big fat joint he was hooked)

(After the football, having a party happen at Jeremy's house.
Someone had brought cocaine and everyone powdered their nose.
Hanging out with a local band and a good amount of
these chicks, his curiosity at Friday went to heroine)

If you think that you're bound for glory.
And you're writing an endless story.
Do you know what it is you're looking for?
On the road that will lead you nowhere.
Wanna bet it will take you somewhere.
When you get to the end, it'll be too late.

He's getting high like a mountain. Gonna take a holiday.
He's getting high like a mountain.
Gonna throw his life...
High like a mountain.
Gonna take a holiday.
He's getting high like a mountain.
He's gonna throw his life away.