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well, the night was fallen cold outside this convenience store and then manager guy said, â??you gotta go, you can't hang around no more.â? told that guy, "I need a ride, I'm trying to find a way back east." then this weird guy replied, â??it's alright if you ride with me, 'cause I'm going on back east, it's alright if you ride with me, I'm a rollin' for the east, get your stuff and come with me.â? he had a big gash on his head, it made him look like a criminal said it almost killed him dead, spent a week in the hospital he was sleeping in his car back out in Mexacali a staggered drunk out of the bar followed him and beat him badly they weren't from the east, those guys weren't from the east I think they were from the bay area, gangster tough guys from the bay area they used a steel pipe and a stick, and he escaped the fatal blow they tried to drag him into the ditch but he ran up to the road police happened to arrive, he waved his arms to flag 'em down he's lucky now to be alive so he's heading for las vegas town and he's goin' on back east, first he's gonna lose a little money then he's rollin' back east, after he finds him a honey Marcalino was his name, loved to listen to The Scorpions and fishing was his game, in alaska up in ketchiken when that fishing time was through, back to the lower 48 get a vegas prostitute as his way to celebrate then he'd go on back east, back home to the family and he'd roll on back east his mother and his sister, his only family we stopped at an all night diner; he insister he would pay Songtextehe bought me cigarettes and a lighter and we drove the rest of the way to arrive at five a.m., he let me off at the bali's casino there he handed me a five and a ten he said, "good luck, get out of here." he said, "you go back east, I'm gonna stay and tame the beast." he said, "no, you go on back east, I'm gonna get down to the least." so I walk off to the bus depot and I buy the ticket and I got on the bus and I fell asleep and I woke up with this drunk passed out guy next to me he peed his pants so I moved my seat to the front of the bus and I fell asleep and I woke up in Winter Park, Colorado it was minus six, I couldn't find my friend so I found a job chopping ice off hotel rooms and I saved up enough to get me back to Georgia back to my old band, it felt good to be back I went up to old Picken's County, late Joe Calski, Kiwi Key, my friend Tony T no, he never called me, we had our kicks we did some tricks, we did back flips. and the whole time I was hangin' around back east the only thing going through my mind was getting on back west Aus Songtexte Mania