Safe on
  The interstate
  New York
  Is three thousand miles away
  And I'm not looking forward to following through
  But it's better than always running back into you
  I've closed my eyes and my bank account
  And gone west, young man
  
  Take off
  The parking brake
  Go coasting
  Into a different state
  And I'm not looking forward to missing you
  But I must have something better to do
  I've got to tear my life apart
  And go west, young man
  
  And it feels like I've got something to prove,
  But in some ways it's just something to do
  My friend's turn me around and say
  You go west, young man
  
  Stepping
  Down off my platform shoes
  Sixty-
  Nine in the afternoon
  And I'm waiting for someone in the know
  Like Pirnir tells me on the radio ed. note: this is the way it's spelled
  on the lyrics sheet. It may be "Pirner," as in Dave
  Says take it from someone who's been there before
  You go west, young man
  
  And I'm looking for somebody to do
  My thinking for me 'till I come through
  The state-line highway sign says
  You have gone west, young man
  And it feels like I've got something to prove
  But in some ways it's just something to do
  The state-line highway sign says
  You have gone west, young man