Day is night in New York City
Smoke, like water, runs inside
Steel idle trees to pity
Every living thing that's died

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Oh yeah

Life is like the coldest winter
People freeze the tears I cry
Words of hail their minds are into
I've got to crack this ice and fly

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time


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    I love the intertwining guitar leads in the solo; the way the notes ebb and flow together - sometimes in unison then in counterpoint. It is such an illuminating song - I always see sun shining through melting snow and icicles gleaming with refracted sunlight in my mind's eye when this song plays.

    I always heard it as "Worlds of hell their minds are into"...

    It's an ode to the chimera of absolute freedom in traveling.

    I once hitch hiked for almost 2 years...so often this song insinuated itself into my reveries on the road.

    An all time favorite tune.

    NomadMonadon May 16, 2012   Link

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