I took the fool's gold from my nickel pocket
Watched it flake in the morning Sun
When a wave of punishing heat
Kissed the crown of my head
Suddenly I was aware of myself
I picked up the pay phone and dialed my parents
Only I had forgotten my mother had passed
I heard flapping pages in a creosote bush
I walked towards them
They were full of women
With blurred-out crotches
And stars for nipples
And an ad for the Red Man burning my lip
That I got from a Guinness World Record Holder
For the longest fall living
And he walked with a limp
And we sang

Gold and silver, God and glitter
Lights that flicker on hubcap chrome
On the road to Heaven
In Strauss and Stetson
Swimming pools of horsepower
Take me back home

Smoke signals rise from a '44
Chevy Fleetline
On the bridge of the Boulder Dam
I jump from the edge
Into the silvery cold Colorado
Taken back by my shock response
I grabbed hold of a billboard
That appeared out of nowhere
Asking where I would spend my eternity
Got picked up by Elvis in a Tesla Model X
Jet-black '68 comeback leather
He was clean and sober
And he laughed when I asked him if it was all worth it
And he cried when he asked about Lisa Marie
Then he passed me the keys and said: Put it on Jesus
And we blew through starlight on bricklayers' knees
And we sang

Gold and silver, God and glitter
Lights that flicker on hubcap chrome
On the road to heaven
In Strauss and Stetson
Swimming pools of horsepower
Take me back home
To the gold and the silver
God and glitter
Lights that flicker on hubcap chrome
On the road to heaven
In Strauss and Stetson
Swimming pools of horsepower
Take me back
Take me back home

Take me back home
Take me back
Take me back home
Home
Take me back
Take me back home