Sometimes I walk and wish L.A.    were some small town in Monteray    I close my eyes and ask the gods   to make those cadillacs   some dusty dogs      I close my eyes and live   I close my eyes and live another day      Sometimes I think I'll melt away   and in the sidewalk cracks I'll stay   and who will notice?   who will call?   and life won't change much   if at all      I close my eyes and live   I close my eyes and live another day      another day so far   from the farms where I grew up   another day   another day   another day so far from that single   pair of eyes   that speak to me of home   not another night alone      another day is done   I lay my eyes to rest   there's food    I've got a bed   and there's a roof above my head      sometimes I think that everyone   really speaks a foreign tongue    like I say x and you hear y   but I push these thoughts from my mind      and close my eyes and live   I close my eyes and live another day      I close my eyes and live   I close my eyes and live another day