China gets broken and it will never be the same
Boats on the ocean find their way back again
I am weaving like a drunkard
Like a ballon up in the air
I am needing a puncture and someone to point me
somewhere
I'm gonna keep my head on straight
I just hope it's not too late
Open up the gate I go
Steady on

I was feeling imploded, a wooden smile , a wooden heart
Then things exploded like rockets in the dark
Now I'm pulling out splinters
And I'm off to hibernate somewhere
For the nuclear winter of another love affair

'Cause He seemed like a miracle
I ate it up like cereal
But it was something like shrapnel

It's like ten miles of two lane on a South Dakota wheat plain in the middle of a hard rain
A slow boat or a fast train

I'm gonna keep my head on straight

Steady On!
Shawn Colvin - J. Leventhal