Downhill From Everywhere - Jackson Browne

Downhill from the prison

Downhill from the mall

Downhill from the factory farm and the hospital

Downhill from the border wall

Downhill from the high school

Downhill from the gym

Downhill from the church and the stadium

Downhill from the baby’s room

Downhill from the office

Downhill from the bar

Downhill from the theme park and the family car

Downhill from happy hour

Downhill from everywhere

Downhill from all you see

The ocean is downhill from gravity

Downhill from here

Downhill from everywhere

Downhill from all of humanity

Downhill from the silver screen

Downhill from the end of the sea

Downhill from the vineyard

Downhill from the mine

Downhill from the fruity plain and the bottom line

Downhill from Columbine

Downhill from the racetrack

Downhill from the news

Downhill from the sponsors and the camera crews

Downhill from the pain to lose

Downhill from God’s golden shore

Downhill from the grocery store

Downhill from the center floor

K Street, and the never-ending war

Downhill from everywhere

Downhill from all you see

The ocean is the last stop for gravity

Downhill from here

Downhill from everywhere

All mankind’s ambition and validity

Do you think of the ocean as yours?

Because you need the ocean to breathe

Every second breath you take

Is coming from the sea

We don’t really know

Because we don’t really see

Do you think of the ocean as yours?

Do you think about it at all?

Downhill from the campus

Downhill from the loan

Downhill from the funeral home

Downhill from the laptop

Downhill from the trough

Downhill from the Russian doll

Downhill from the N.R.A

Downhill from the G.O.P

Downhill from the I.C.E

And you hide all the messes trying to be free

Oh yeah