Between the wheels

To live between the wars in our time
Living in real time
Holding the good time
Holding on to yesterdays

You know how that rabbit feels
Going under your speeding wheels
Bright images flashing by
Like windshields towards a fly
Frozen in the fatal climb, but the wheels of time
Just pass you by

Wheels can take you around
Wheels can cut you down

We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets' red glare
Down to "Brother can you spare"
Another war, another waste land
And another lost generation

It slips between your hands like water
This living in real time
A dizzying lifetime
Reeling by on celluloid