Yeah, why don't you drive me Down that rough and twisted road? Why don't you guide me? 'Cause I don't know which way to go Promise to take me Yeah, to where the water glows Somewhere, somewhere down to Puerto Rico Where the tide just ebbs and flows Flash me all your jewelry Poetry and friends Promise me a dance like Nijinsky Nothing, nothing, nothing but a false pretense Yeah, all you feed me Was just rancid rice and bones All I drank was muddy water As lonely as a saxophone Why don't you take me To where I wanna go? To Natchez, Mississippi Sicily and Rome You just took me to a flyblown town In the back of nowhere Smell was acrid and toxic Couldn't breathe the air The only club was called Conspiracy They didn't like me much What they wanted was tyranny And all that crazy, crazy, fucked up stuff Why don't you drive me? Take me where you wanna go Yeah, why don't you take me Down this rough and twisted road? Yes, why don't you teach me Teach me all those foreign tongues? Yeah, why don't you take me? 'Cause I'm deaf and blind and dumb Yeah, drive me Yeah, drive me Where I wanna go Drive me Take me where I wanna Take me where I wanna Take me where I wanna go