Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
When you've wandered around so long
you can't come back down.
Now your forgetting how to keep
your feet on the ground.
Tried to fade away but
the only truth I found,
I see through my crossed eyes;
these hands are bound.
Don't you see, it's all me,
creating the fact and the friction
the human condition
against your tradition.
Here's my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me.
My premonition:
you're just a little naive.
Let go of what you think you know,
if you could only see, my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me
and you can't fake that kind of reality.
TWenty years of working hard
just to lose it all.
Who'd have known I could get this far
but still feel so small?
Pardon my mistakes,
the ones you never saw.
Admit you missed it all;
you made me fall.
Don't you see, it's all me,
creating the fact and the friction
the human condition
against your tradition.
Here's my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me.
My premonition:
you're just a little naive.
Let go of what you think you know,
if you could only see, my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me
and you can't fake that kind of reality.
Don't you see, it's all me,
Here's my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me.
My premonition:
you're just a little naive.
Let go of what you think you know,
if you could only see, my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me
and you can't fake that kind of reality.
you can't come back down.
Now your forgetting how to keep
your feet on the ground.
Tried to fade away but
the only truth I found,
I see through my crossed eyes;
these hands are bound.
Don't you see, it's all me,
creating the fact and the friction
the human condition
against your tradition.
Here's my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me.
My premonition:
you're just a little naive.
Let go of what you think you know,
if you could only see, my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me
and you can't fake that kind of reality.
TWenty years of working hard
just to lose it all.
Who'd have known I could get this far
but still feel so small?
Pardon my mistakes,
the ones you never saw.
Admit you missed it all;
you made me fall.
Don't you see, it's all me,
creating the fact and the friction
the human condition
against your tradition.
Here's my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me.
My premonition:
you're just a little naive.
Let go of what you think you know,
if you could only see, my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me
and you can't fake that kind of reality.
Don't you see, it's all me,
Here's my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me.
My premonition:
you're just a little naive.
Let go of what you think you know,
if you could only see, my prediction:
I believe what's in front of me
and you can't fake that kind of reality.
Lyrics submitted by Kiamelnaru
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