It gets so hot down here that your mind gets hazy
Tell me you like it and I’ll tell you you’re crazy
“No” is no answer for me and I won’t give up trying
Tell me I’m stuck here and I’ll tell you you’re lying
I’m so preoccupied with fifty ways to get out, my mind is hell-bent
But when I finally taste that freedom
I know it’ll be heaven-sent
And everything baby is gonna be all right
Gonna be all right
And everything baby is gonna be all right
Gonna be all right
The days are long and exhausting, and they seem to drag on
Today might be a bad day but soon today will be gone
It feels like the end of the world but never give up
‘Cause for every downhill there’s an up
Last night I had a dream that the end of the world was beginning
When I woke up I said the losing is over
I’m gonna start winning
And everything baby is gonna be all right ...
Once I thought I’d get away from that Jerusalem beauty
And try my luck with the Tel Aviv cuties
They looked at me like I was some kind of hick
So I got the hell outtatheah, it was making me sick
Since I come from out of town they think I’m some poor slob
If they wanna think so, let ‘em
‘Cause the only way to outsnob a snob is to be a bigger snob
So if these chicks don’t wanna know, forget ‘em
It’s OK, I understand their head
I’ve been through this kind of thing before
They’ll keep on scheissing my head
But you know I’ll be coming back for more
And everything baby is gonna be all right ...
©2023 The Hesh Inc.
I wrote this in the summer of 1985, when I was stationed on an artillery base just north of Jericho, which was still in Israeli hands at the time. Despite the smallness of the country of Israel—seriously, I was only a 45-minute bus ride from Jerusalem and maybe an hour and a half from home, tops—I had a hard time feeling cut off from my friends and family while serving on a base in the desert facing the Jordanians. (Interestingly enough, with the benefit of hindsight I can say that if social media had existed back then—with allowances for security, of course—I would not have had such a hard time of it all.) I wrote the song while on guard duty at various positions around the base, as encouragement to myself that I'd get through the temporary difficulty.
Musically, it borrows from Bryan Adams, whose Reckless album was a huge hit that year, as well as Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town." Unfortunately never recorded. (If I only had a regular band at the time and access to recording machinery, I could have filled albums and gone big. But no. Oh well.)