Crazy days in New York on Avenue A
Somewhere through the streetlights
You could hear the music play.
Everybody's swingin' now
They got a change of pace.
Candy Carona down in the marketplace.
Gang men along the bridge
Twisted from the start,
Say ''Hold on -you're way off course
Now you've gone too far.
Remember what you started
Ain't it time for you to blow''
Back to workin' for the dollar
On the Road to Mexico.

Somewhere on Paradise Street
With a wing and a prayer
It was hard movin' up
Harder comin' down there.
Roads in all directions
Divisions by decree
That's the way the deals go down
Here on Paradise Street.
Now, some amongst 'em
Know just who they are
All gold along the road
You couldn't ask for more.
But the deaf and the blind and the speechless
You've got to learn to rock and roll
If you're lookin' for a better deal
On the Road . . .

In the shadows and the boulevards
The odds were 20 to 1
Rockin' Ron could keep
The whole thing rollin' along.
Move it to the left
Through the bleeding, driving rain.
If the crew don't make it through
Nothin' ever be the same.
One thing worth talkin' about
Swear it won't take long
Some days you've got to move
Without a look at the water beyond.
Along the windin' road
That's how the story goes.
Take it or leave it
On the Road . . .

Reachin' for the borderline
With heart so strong
Cold sweat, and a desire to belong.
Mixed up in a hurricane
Like you've never seen before
Wasn't much to laugh about
Everybody hit the floor.
Sweet angel of mercy
Won't you shine your light?
Just around the mountainside
El Paso shinin' bright.
If'n you be yearnin'
For to ramble and to roam
Well, remember how it all goes down
On the Road . . .