Tell me the truth, how do you feel?   Like you're rollin' so fast that you're spinnin' your wheels?   Don't feel too bad, you're not all along   We're all tryin' to get along   With ev'rybody else try'n' to go their way   You're bound to get tripped, and what can you say?   Just go along 'til they turn out the lights   There's nothin' we can do to fight it      No man's got it made till he's far beyond the pain   And we who must remain go on living just the same      I once knew a man, very talented guy   He's sing for the people and people would cry   They knew that his song came from deep down inside   You could hear it in his voice and see it in his eyes      And so he traveled along, touch your heart, then be gone   Like a flower, he bloomed till that old hickory wind   Called him home      My man's got it made   He's gone far beyond the pain   And we who must remain go on living just the same   We who must remain go on laughing just the same