sniffing flowers climbing a mountain path

i coddled my name
with soft fabrics
and dreamt of muscles and brains
i ate steak and beans
til it came out my spleen
and i realized, that I'm just insane

i looked in the mirror
with both eyes
and dreamt of flab gone away
i ate lots of lettuce
but what did it get us?
we never even got half a day.

so...

i walked to el Paso
in good hiking boots
and dreamt of the sunrise to come
i cried and i sighed
til the best of me died
and I realized that I'm perfectly numb

i called across the prairie
for to hail me a cab
and dreamt of crops by the ton
of all of the wheat
tumbled under my feet
Are you sure, I can't be the one?

I climbed my way to Montana
my heart was all gone
and dreamt of being a real man
I wished my name was Brian
instead'a sittin' here dyin'
oh, i prayed you might understand