Wrecking Ball Gillian Welch

Look out, boys, I'm a rollin' stone
That's what I was when I first left home
I took every secret that I'd ever known
And headed for the wall
Like a wrecking ball

Started down lonely road to sin
Playin' bass under pseudonym
The days were rough and it's all quite dim
But my mind cuts through it all
Like a wrecking ball

Oh, just a little Deadhead
Who is watching, who is watching?
I was just a little Deadhead

Fallen daughter on a scholarship
I got tired and let my average slip
Then I was a farmer in the pogonip
Where the weed that I recall
Was like a wrecking ball

I met a lovesick daughter of the San Joaquin
She showed me colors I'd never seen
Drank the bottom out of my canteen
Then left me to fall
Like a wrecking ball