Drifting Away

' For the beginning is assuredly the end -since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities. ' - William Carlos Williams You work hard to make it from dawn to dusk each new day, you'll switch off the light come every night and then go drifting away - You do what you must but would rather go and play, the Lord says you'll get your reward when your soul goes drifting away - You stop in your tracks you kneel and you pray, hoping these words are heard as up they go, drifting ever so far away - You go to the bar to hear what the blues men say, a couple of drinks, and you begin to think it may be best to just drift away - The waitress brings you one more and you ask her to stay, she smiles all the while but, you know she'd just as soon you'd go drifting away - You make up your mind everything is fine, so for today it's all ok, but when the day is done you'll wish you could run and let it all drift away - So you head out the door to be upon your way, wishing the old car would drive off far to where everything wrong goes drifting far away - You make one last stop by the bank to draw your pay, in walks a man, with a gun in his hand... when he pulls the trigger, you'll go on forever, drifting far and away -