I know that it was the night the war broke out
Because you and I were driving around and you were doing a story
About if people understood what had happened to their world
Tonight in bed sleeping, the world tonight in bed asleep
You said that you were in touch with the draft resistors
In case the big boys [...]
Head underwater
Keeps getting hotter
Give ‘em your medicine
Fame injection
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Decades longer than you
Piece it together
It’s like weather
Watch him travel
Kiss the gravel
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Ten times longer than you ever should
You never could explain them to me
Explain them to [...]
They don’t know what they like so much about it
They just go for any shiny old bauble
And nobody sparkles like you
But I can’t imagine it in better terms
The naked, half-awake, about to shave and go to work
And I’m starting to think
It could happen to me like it did to you
And I’m starting to actually feel [...]
We have everything we need here
We have everything between us
You have nothing left to fear, dear
‘Cause it ain’t ever gonna leave us
We might get a room downtown, now
Get away for a half day
We might drive a car down to the next town
Get away from our family
Let your body move real slow
Tell your body we left [...]
For a mean baby, well, I like your pants
Born in South Dakota
For a mean baby, well, I like your hips
Born in South Dakota
I was born in South Dakota
Man, I feel lucky tonight
I’m gonna get stoned and run around
Born in South Dakota
Hey, we’re going to a rodeo town
I’m gonna get drunk and f**k some cows
Born in [...]