"headed down south to the land of the pines, I'm thumbing my way to North Caroline, staring at the road and pray to God I see headlights..."

"But Mama said 'boy, if I ever catch you here again, you ain't never gonna have nobody else, not a woman or a man...'"

"And those who had money looked good but weren�t too happy
And those who didn�t have money didn�t look so good and weren�t so happy either
And in a city of 3 million, 269 thousand, 984, everyone was lonely..."