The Stone Pony, Convention Hall, and the Garden will get us high tonight / It’s the Jam Of The Century with our names up in lights.

I waited up all night for you, I came in from out of town for you / Though I never really talked to you, did you ever think I care.

Standing out here on the shoulder of some two-lane blacktop / Standing out here just waiting, waiting for that one car to stop.

Everything was right for so so long / Everything was right! something had to go wrong.

What she really feels about me / she keeps so well hidden, I just can’t see.

I used to be so cool with my hat and beard / In my younger years way back ...