[Verse 1]
When I was young, I watched the cars
When I was older, I drank in bars
When I was young, I chewed the leaves
When I was older, I drank with thieves

[Verse 2]
I found a love, she gave me dreams
She left me drunk in New Orleans
So cold and lonely, so all alone
I wished my heart was made of stone

[Chorus 1]
I took the cold bright needle, I used it as a sword
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
I burned across the delta, swam across the ford
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

[Verse 3]
When I was a young man, standing on this road
My empty belly an aching hole
An old man said to me, "Kid, don't you know
That it's the same wherever you go?"

[Chorus 2]
I gambled in two graveyards, won against the odds
With saints and with saviors, with the maggots and the gods
I cursed the things they showed me I could never see again
And the howling of the wind at night, I wrote upon the rain
[Verse 4]
I found the thing for which I prayed
And came back home to the USA
With a heart of stone so now I know
That it's the same wherever you go

[Refrain]
Wherever you go
Wherever you go
Wherever you go
Wherever you go

[Outro]
Down, down, hear it come down
Down, down, hear it come down
Down, down, hear it come down
Down, down, hear it come down