It's true that all the men you knew were dealers Who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind You find he did not leave you very much, not even laughter Like any dealer, he was watching for the card That is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger He was just some Joseph looking for a manger And then leaning on your window sill He'll say one day you caused his will To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter And then taking from his wallet An old schedule of trains, he'll say "I told you when I came, I was a stranger" "I told you when I came, I was a stranger" But now another stranger seems To want you to ignore his dreams As though they were the burden of some other Oh, you've seen that man before His golden arm dispatching cards But now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter Yes, he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter Ah, you hate to watch another tired man Lay down his hand Like he was giving up the holy game of poker And while he talks his dreams to sleep You notice there's a highway That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder It's curling just like smoke above his shoulder You tell him to come in, sit down But something makes you turn around The door is open, you can't close your shelter You try the handle of the road It opens, do not be afraid It's you, my love, you, who are the stranger And it's you, my love, you, who are the stranger Well, I've been waiting, I was sure We'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please, understand, I never had a secret chart To get me to the heart of this or any other matter When he talks like this, you don't know what he's after When he speaks like this, you don't know what he's after Let's meet tomorrow, if you choose Upon the shore, beneath the bridge That they are building on some endless river Then he leaves the platform for the sleeping car that's warm You realize he's only advertising one more shelter And it comes to you, he never was a stranger And you say, "Okay, the bridge or someplace later" And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind You find he did not leave you very much, not even laughter Like any dealer, he was watching for the card That is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger He was just some Joseph looking for a manger And leaning on your window sill He'll say one day you caused his will To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter And then taking from his wallet An old schedule of trains, he'll say "I told you when I came, I was a stranger" "I told you when I came, I was a stranger" "I told you when I came I was a stranger" "I told you when I came I was a stranger"

If you call me I'll come running And you can call me anytime These sixteen strings we're strumming They will back up every line, every line, every line Yeah Get me back on my feet G-g-get me back on my feet, on my feet If you call me I'll come running And you can call me anytime And these sixteen strings we're strumming They will back up every line There's a motivation about you That moves me when we're apart It agitates my affections And it wants to break my heart Help me, stranger Help me get it off my mind Get me back on my feet Brother, can you spare the time? Help me, stranger Help me get it off my mind Get me back on my feet Brother, can you spare the time? It's not essential that I feel you But it's a sensitive device I'm reverential when I hear you I genuflect to your advice Well, I wish I had the words And I want those words to rhyme And I wish I had the nerve 'Cause I sure don't have the time Help me, stranger Help me get it off my mind Get me back on my feet Brother, can you spare the time? Help me, stranger Help me get it off my mind Get me back on my feet Brother, can you spare the time? (Yeah) Brother can you spare the time? (Baby can you spare the time?) Brother can you spare the time? Brother can you spare the time?

I wandered again to my home in the mountains Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free I looked for my friends but I never could find them I found they were all rank strangers to me Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger No mother or dad not a friend could I see They knew not my name and I knew not their faces I found they were all rank strangers to me. Now they've all moved away said the voice of a stranger To a beautiful home by a bright crystal sea And some day I'll meet them all up in Heaven Where no one will be a rank stranger to me.

I'm a backseat driver in my own town I only got one road that I might go down I'm a passive traveler, ride around Because the clock keeps ticking and I don't count for nothing I can't get a grip on my intuition Hope it don't lead me nowhere I recognize from the pictures Making my own decisions like running with safety scissors And you can loan me the wisdom but I ain't paying the interest What's the deal lately? Looking on the surface must be real crazy But I got no compass in these words and I got to feel lazy So I keep on coasting how I roam like it gon' slow the pain But if I ain't careful, then we'll all run out of novocaine I'm a backseat driver in my own town I only got one road that I might go down I'm a passive traveler, ride around Because the clock keeps ticking and I don't count for nothing I'm a backseat driver Even with my foot up on the gas, I can press rewind Take it back, freeze time Let it dangle like a trapeze line Did I really throw up that peace sign? 3:30 And burning the street signs I'm hurtling west but you know I started on the east side My queen driving me and making a beeline I can see why nobody giving me free rides anymore And I ain't one to hide it But deep down I'm checking out on autopilot I don't navigate, no six ways to Saturday I'm gonna do it for the aftertaste Imagine wasting so much time flying past the places You could die when the path to sainthood's loaded Thinking I don't even have the patience for the journey Cause I ain't the destination I'm a backseat driver in my own town I only got one road that I might go down I'm a passive traveler, ride around Because the clock keeps ticking and I don't count for nothing I ain't counting for nothing I don't think I can see what's around the bend I ain't counting for nothing Nothing baby Nothing baby Oh no Break it down now

Summer's come and gone No pennies left for thoughts If I ran the river dry, would the distant sky wanna talk That's the question, but like Don't you think it's funny You can't predict what's coming And any given moment I could stoke the fire, I'm running Cause you know I'm just a Creature of the habitat Heaven's where the traffic's at And I know it's true, cause I've seen you Perform your local magic act Don't you put me in my fuckin' place again These dreams will never pay the rent I've had my turn to mark my words And all I've learned is I'm no superhero, baby I been off the fumes, I'm approaching zero baby Thousand mile an hour limit on the interstate, I hesitate The expectations cut me like a knife But I swear on my life I ain't a savior baby Talking to myself hasn't done me favors lately Anyone could paint the the walls of a crowded room So what's the use There's nothing left for me to do in time But I swear I'm alive Think I'm at the ceiling I'm working on my breathing Maybe when the luxury can adjust to me I'll break even But it's getting hard to manage I can't control the damage Silence on the radio ain't sustainable on this planet Somebody just Tell me I'm cut out for this Roll the dice and count the chips The pressure's on, and something's wrong I've come too far to not amount to shit But don't you put me in my fuckin' place again These dreams will never pay the rent I've had my turn to mark my words And all I've learned is I'm no superhero, baby I been off the fumes, I'm approaching zero baby Thousand mile an hour limit on the interstate, I hesitate The expectations cut me like a knife But I swear on my life I ain't a savior baby Talking to myself hasn't done me favors lately Anyone could paint the the walls of a crowded room So what's the use There's nothing left for me to do in time But I swear I'm alive Tell me I'm alive Tell me I'm alive Tell me I'm alive Tell me I'm alive

You made me surreal but I'm vacant I'm messing around with the vapors So if I get laugh lines creating I'll iron them out with the papers My beats have bipolar disorder My lyrics have ADHD My friends just got lit in the bathroom My girl wont stop staring at me You can call me a charmer But I won't believe There's a sermon inside me And it's flooding the streets Life is just gonna slip by me, cause I cant control when I get to the end So maybe for now I'll put all of the steam to good use and just try to forget I've been playing hooky for substance And it's probably gonna bite me real soon I'm dreaming of making it big time But at this point I'm running errands for fools I get closer to gold when i'm spitting my mind I just want all these verses to last Or avoid paying to my future until I know that shit's a thing of the past You can call me a charmer But I won't believe There's a sermon inside me That's just trynna be free Some of my friends like to say I'm insane and I'm sad to admit that it's true So maybe we can wipe the slate like a dinner plate and renew So I'm gon' fake the time of day and be the best that I can be I'll just be me And if i make it like they say, will I say fuck the industry I'll just be me So I'm gon' fake the time of day and be the best that I can be I'll just be me And if i make it like they say, will I say fuck the industry I'll just be me, no Don't you call me a charmer I'm not gonna believe Do I follow my heart now Or just bring it with me Maybe the seconds will add up to something, its certain for now I don't know Teeter-totter between being broke and Romeo Teeter-totter between bigger things and Romeo Teeter-totter between having faith and Romeo

My girl call me Obi Wan Kenobi And my homies the only ones that know me Disengage like Obi Wan Kenobi Cause if God's got a muse for me, he'd better show me My girl call me Obi Wan Kenobi And my homies the only ones that know me I disengage like Obi Wan Kenobi Cause if God's got a muse for me, he'd better show me Chuuch, I guess i'll start with a disclaimer Baby, I'm chopping haters with occam's razor And I ought to flavor my beats and make 'em contagious So even Darth Vader wouldn't bother to fucking savor I give them my best effort, they're effervescent and zesty But if I quit now, no one will have the chance to catch me That'd be a blessing, I'm guessing, I might as well say fuck it And hope I just get lucky while I chill here just resting Cause even destiny necessitates the best of me, but it's easy to think that my creator accidentally Sculpted a chest for me and left it hollow, empty, geez I'm digging for topics to rock till nothings left of me I know my natural talent can be deceiving When you take one look at the first of seven seas, and then proceed to Try and snap your fingers and rap, it ain't that easy And therein lies the problem, even if I choose to be me, what's the use My girl call me Obi Wan Kenobi And my homies the only ones that know me Disengage like Obi Wan Kenobi Cause if God's got a muse for me, he'd better show me My girl call me Obi Wan Kenobi And my homies the only ones that know me I disengage like Obi Wan Kenobi Cause if God's got a muse for me, he'd better show me At this point I don't even answer to my name I cycle through the same damn cadences in my brain It's crazy, kinda trippy cause the words won't even hit me Guess I'll pin that one on my wall for losing its sticky Do you miss me? Yeah, well join the club, man Cause I've been grinding behind the scenes like a stunt man Ain't got the patience, but Dr. Dre with a W been trying skywalk since 200&1, man But I ain't quitting yet, quite honestly The things I haven't put on my page yet are probably The Force that's keeping me in the game, sane, I gotta be Lame first before I can attain the prodigy of fame And I got no problem with being slept on But if you keep my name in your brain then you'll be headstrong Rather stick to rebel roots than never spit bars So I'll keep wishing on death stars in hope that I get far My girl call me Obi Wan Kenobi And my homies the only ones that know me Disengage like Obi Wan Kenobi Cause if God's got a muse for me, he'd better show me My girl call me Obi Wan Kenobi And my homies the only ones that know me I disengage like Obi Wan Kenobi Cause if God's got a muse for me, he'd better show me I know it's been half a year since someone said Drew I know if you give it all you've got you'll pull through I know that these rhymes are gonna weigh down on you But you ain't got no time to make your mind up, what the hell will you do I know it's been half a year since someone said Drew I know if you give it all you've got you'll pull through I know that these rhymes are gonna weigh down on you But you ain't got no time to make your mind up, just keep writing your blues