For You-Heron

Billy and me were the best kind of friends We were drinking every night And most every night Billy'd keep the good times rollin' But every once in a while he'd get a look in his eye Like he was lost and he couldn't go on He'd just say: It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin' It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin' Billy and me we'd take the Southside bus 'bout once in every week He'd leave me in the bar and then he'd go off strollin' He'd be back in an hour with money to burn But he'd never say where he'd been to He'd just say: It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin' It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin' There is a desert where no life does move There is a darkness where no light does shine Nobody can take your first step out of there You got to do it yourself, you got to do it yourself Friday night I was waitin' in the Southside bar like before Two, three hours went by Billy still wasn't showin' You know when I found him he was hurt real bad And bleedin' like I have never seen He just said: It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin' It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin' Call out your doctor, call out your nurse, Call out your preacher too You can call out your doctor, call out your nurse, Call out your preacher too But the will to live, you got to do that yourself There's no other way The will to live, you got to do that yourself