cross the world

we had no idea what we were in for, 3 boys trying to grow up strong, but we all found great comfort in music, and the journey that carried us along, we bought an old van, borrowed a drum set, got a $40 dollar bass from the farm next door, met a french canadian in rhode island, who told us to keep our sticks down, keep our heads up, and get a lil something for, and we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world for what we had found, dropped the tranny in effingham, illinois, stealing gasoline in the freezing cold, once teenage friends, now struggling with the place where the sidewalk ends, so we said goodbye in boston, with that dirty water rolling on, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world for what we'd found, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world for what we'd found, but then you all came out in new york, for a country that was so far away, i'll tell you, i'll tell you, there's an elias in zimbabwe, who is smiling to know that his message did not fade away, and now we're trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world for what we'd found, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world, we were trying to cross the world for what we'd found, we're trying, we're trying