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.
Fallin' in love is one free ride
Spending my time getting high
Never know what you expect from me
The worst you get is the best you see
I'm going crazy am I really alive
If everyone fallow us do we ever survive
I sometimes wonder if I get up dead or alive
Used to be a spaceman
To far out to Neverland
Enjoy it like it nothing knew
But this is heaven and hell and we don't let through
Used to be to blind to see
Destroy everything's in front of me
People stand and ask me why
Will I get up alive or will I die
Spending my time getting high
Never know what you expect from me
The worst you get is the best you see
I'm going crazy am I really alive
If everyone fallow us do we ever survive
I sometimes wonder if I get up dead or alive
Used to be a spaceman
To far out to Neverland
Enjoy it like it nothing knew
But this is heaven and hell and we don't let through
Used to be to blind to see
Destroy everything's in front of me
People stand and ask me why
Will I get up alive or will I die
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I hear it a little differently:
Thought of life as one free ride Spent all my time getting high Never know what you expect from me The worst you get is the best you see
I'm going crazy am I really alive If everyone follows will we ever survive I sometimes wonder if we'll get out dead or alive
Used to be a spaceman To far out to Neverland Enjoyin' life is nothing knew But is this is heaven or hell that we're going through
I'm going crazy am I really alive If everyone follows will we ever survive I sometimes wonder if we'll get out dead or alive
Used to be to blind to see Destroyin' things in front of me People stare and ask me why Will I get out alive or will I die
I'm going crazy am I really alive If everyone follows will we ever survive I sometimes wonder if we'll get out dead or alive
It's about the rock and roll lifestyle and how you have to be in the moment living free and wild to really be "alive" and how most people don't do it - they are walking dead...