Slow trains old flames in far away places City bars and beat up cars and faces Bus stops and donut shops Dirty dying town Phone calls and union halls rain falling down Any penny anybody ever lost or found These are the reasons the world goes around
Truck stops and crooked cops And Sunday afternoons Starry nights and neon lights And landing on the moon Hard times and heinous crimes And tabloid magazines Civil rights, black and whites And television screens Falling off an climbing up And falling right back down These are the reasons the world goes around
It's kind of like a secret everybody knows If anything comes easy, well that's the way it goes Everybody all the way from here to heaven knows These are the reasons the world goes around
Laundromats and sewer rats And fifteen flights of stairs Being to crack house raids, rodeos, and fairs Service halls and shopping malls Cranky morning moods Politics and hand-me-downs and dietary foods Feeling like you're lucky when your feet are on the ground These are the reasons that the world goes around
Silver guitars and fat cigars And newspapers Pawn shops and cash crops Old calous towns School yards and credit cards An old gospel song Living half your life to be remembered when you're gone Building all them bridges and burning them back down These are the reasons the world goes around
It's kind of like a secret everybody knows If anything comes easy, well that's the way it goes Everybody all the way from here to heaven knows These are the reasons the world goes around