I’ll Be Gone

This town is dead, this world is rotten
I've seen this country's fifty states and I've forgotten
Every name and every place, I drank my way through every hour
Of every day I've spent away from home

And it doesn't mean shit to me
'Cause I didn't see it with you
No, it doesn't mean shit to me
Alone

This brain is dead, this body's rotting
I came, I saw, I never conquered anything
I've spent my life in vans on tours in rich men's homes, on poor men's floors
I've sold my soul to find a shred of hope

And it doesn't mean shit to me
'Cause I didn't find it with you
No, it doesn't mean shit to me
Alone

Someday I'll be gone and all this forgotten
With these cold and lonely words
Someday I'll be dead and this all for nothing
She'll live the way she should

But when you see her, remind her I tried
And tell her see you to remember I've tried