Pearl Jam - Off He Goes lyrics

Know a man, his face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's riding on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's always moving much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flip side of
This trip he's taking for a ride

He's been taking too much on
There he goes with his
Perfectly unkempt clothes there he goes

He's yet to come back but
I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back i wonder about his insides
It's like his thoughts are too
Big for his size

He's been taken, where? I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes

And now I rub my eyes for he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what
Should have been burned
For he still smiles, and he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surrounding
Bullshit That has grown
And now he's home and we're

Laughing like we always did
My same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just
What is gonna happen next
Before his first step, he is off again