Downtown Bound

I’m downtown bound today
And ain’t it a lousy shame
I’d really rather play a tune
With you beside the lake

But the bills demand their pay
So the work keeps me away
I’d really rather row a canoe
With you for nature’s sake

I wish that we could fly away
I keep my feet down I’m afraid
I wish that we could meditate
But I’m in a race and I’m running late

So I’m downtown bound today
I hear the chirping of a truck in reverse
I feel a warm breeze emanate
From a rusty sidewalk grate

I hear the trickle of leaky pipe
I’m in a concrete universe
Everybody hustlin’ to define
What it means to be on time

Why can’t we just fly away
I keep my feet down on the ground I’m afraid
I wish that we could meditate
I’m in a race and I’m running late

I gotta keep this city job
So we can find a little land someday
Make slow cooked comfort foods
And feed em from a fork to a brood

Of dogs that we keep on the run
Throwing balls in the late summer sun
Writing songs that we sing up to the wind
Hear the wind sing em back to us again

I wish that we could fly away, babe
But I keep my feet down I’m afraid
I wish that we could meditate
But I’m in this race and I’m running late

I’m downtown bound today
And ain’t it a cryin’ shame
I’d really rather be with you
Instead of running like a rat in a maze

But I never got a lucky break
So I work for all the money I make
I’d really rather row a canoe
With you for nature’s sake
Yeah I’d really rather row a canoe
With you for nature’s sake