[Verse 1]
Hear the trucks on the highway and the ticking of the clocks
There's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon
Bullet holes in the mailbox
Bullet holes in the mailbox
Key holes in my mind

[Chorus]
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
I'm fallin' behind

[Verse 2]
She said, "Why don't you come see me when the sun goes down?
It'll be just like the old days when I used to let you hang around"
Well I don't know, I might not speak the language anymore

[Chorus]
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
Will close some doors

[Verse 3]
The people in the village watch their children play
At the sight of a stranger they call the kids away
"Just leave that man alone," I hear the mother say
[Chorus]
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
That's what made him that way

[Bridge]
Well, I hadn't intended to bend the rules
But whiskey don't make liars, it just makes fools
So I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said

[Chorus]
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
Must've gone to my head

[Instrumental]

[Verse]
Jet trail in the sunset a long way away
Cuttin' 'cross an horizon at the edge of the day
And it calls out, "Jimmy, come fly away!"

[Chorus]
But I've been too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay
Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
Gonna have to stay
[Instrumental]

[Outro]
There's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon
Bullet holes in the mailbox