The Long Way Around Jackson Browne

[Verse 1]
I don't know what to say about these days
I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways
Even in the richer neighborhoods
People don't know when they got it good
They got the envy, and they got it bad

[Verse 2]
When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free
Running up and down Tinsel Town with the fire inside of me
My planets all in retrograde
The best of all my plans got laid
I made my breaks, and some mistakes
Just not the ones people think I made

[Chorus]
Now I'm a long way gone
Down this wild road I'm on
It's gonna take me where I'm bound
But it's the long way around

[Verse 3]
It's so hard keeping track of what's gone wrong
The covenant unravels, and the news just rolls along
I could feel my memory letting go
Some two or three disasters ago
It's hard to say which did more ill
Citizens United or the Gulf oil spill