Mike Heron - Do It Yourself (Desert Song) Lyrics

Billy and me were the best kind of friends

We were drinking every night



And most every night Billy'd keep the good times rollin'

But every once in a while he'd get a look in his eye

Like he was lost and he couldn't go on

He'd just say:



It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin'

It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin'



Billy and me we'd take the Southside bus

‘bout once in every week

He'd leave me in the bar and then he'd go off strollin'

He'd be back in an hour with money to burn

But he'd never say where he'd been to

He'd just say:



It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin'

It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin'



There is a desert where no life does move

There is a darkness where no light does shine

Nobody can take your first step out of there

You got to do it yourself, you got to do it yourself



Friday night I was waitin' in the Southside bar like before

Two, three hours went by Billy still wasn't showin'

You know when I found him he was hurt real bad

And bleedin' like I have never seen

He just said:



It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin'

It ain't easy sometimes to see where you're goin'



Call out your doctor, call out your nurse,

Call out your preacher too

You can call out your doctor, call out your nurse,

Call out your preacher too

But the will to live, you got to do that yourself

There's no other way

The will to live, you got to do that yourself