You Know Me Better

I don't know what I want in this life is it more than the thrills Keep me struggling to find all the wine and all the wealth Well you followed me through the trouble Go and say what I wanted to hear Go and find me in the gutter like a poet with no fear And you lie awake at night said, "I'm gone to West Virginia" All the white snow and trumpets play in the clearing of December On a ferry I suppose as the river kept on moving Now you know me better than all of my friends Yeah you know me better than all of my friends Well I was born tired in the clearing of the sun In the time of a struggle you kissed me and said "Go and swim out on the ocean til' you can't see no land" Will it do me any harm to be happy again I don't know what I want in this life is it over the hill I was running in the darkness and behind all my bills Well you followed me through the desert and the New York City lights In the Paris of the South and the cold Minnesota nights Yeah you know me better than all of my friends Said the bottle to the spirit while the world was sinking in I keep talking to myself every now and again Yeah you know me better than all of my friends