Hello, Milwaukee

Well I said goodbye for that highway
I took you by the hand and I told you not to cry but you did anyway
No you haven’t lost me
'Cause you’re an Eden to me
Though I’m a first fallen leaf
Merely a memory for those who sought me
So long Milwaukee
I headed west, Montana climbing
How the mountains look like fallen giants overcome by all these things
Oh that I’m fighting
And as I’m riding
Through these beautiful states
America shapes
To the lonely feelings I’m hiding
And I put in writing
Oh California, of an endless sun
And as it sets like days of old, all poor men’s boats turn to gold
But I ain’t got one, I just got these wheels, son
And tomorrow they will take me
With a load that will break me
And chance that I once had to ever stop them
Is long forgotten
Oh West Virginia, you’re the song I’m singing
But your skyline of ten thousand pines is like a bloody jagged knife
Slowly swinging
Until the summer brings in
A new kind of hope
That helps me to cope
'Cause I’m slipping from the rope to which I’m clinging
Yeah, but I’m singing
Oh my Wisconsin, welcome me in
Don’t let the snow fall by my side to gently remind
Me that I can’t win
And that I never will
That the stone I’ve been rolling
A rolling and rolling
Forever up the hill was meant for sinking
Lord, I’ve been drinkin and the bottle’s caught me
And I’m thinking I should go back home and live that simple life
My father taught me
In old Milwaukee
In old Milwaukee
Hello, Milwaukee