There's an ill wind on the lowlands
          A famine in the hills
          A rust storm on the northern seas
          A dust storm on the skills
          Where is the law that holds me
          In a grey unpleasant land
          I will not dance for the medicine man
          With the happy pills at hand
          
I will not sing a chain gang song
            I will not walk the line
            The company store won't have my soul
            And l won't have his dime
            You could take my job and shove it
            If I just had one to give
            You could take my pain and love it
            But you won't know how I live
          I will pack up my things and go
            I'm heading down to Australia
            Just strap on some wings and I'll blow
            Right here in my time, right here in my mind
            Right here in my life, this is a time for leaving
          Half my ??? is written red
            The other written black
            And the wolf is at the front door
            And the monkey at the back
            And you can say it's living
            But it's only sex and money
            Saw your hand with a blind man's tin
            And it's no longer funny
          I will pack up my things and go
            I'll take a train over Canada
            Tie up my strings and I'll blow
            Right here in my time, right here in my mind
            Right here in my life, this is a time for leaving
          If I fill my eyes up with the sun
            And hold my face to a blazing sky
            My shadow will be cast behind me
            And I'll look no more at its beaten eyes
          With an open sky above me
            And a warm wind on my back
            With a chance and ??? some to love me
            And I'm never coming back
            To the place where I was cast aside
            Left out of the block ???
            You can wear your thoughts of blame
            In the land that mine forgot
          Right here in my time, right here in my mind
            Right here in my life, this is a time for leaving
          Listen to the city fall
            Listen to the warm wind call
            Listen to me my love
            This is a time for leaving