please tell me everything

so why don't you go
looking for a modern dog and pony show
please tell me everything you think you know
about making love either in a hurry or going slow;
about getting ripe and growing old:
was it worth looking for that precious pot of gold?
was it just waiting to be found
in a far northern Yukon underground?
or at the disappearing end of an afternoon rainbow?
tell me everything you think you know
about trying to choose
between the early morning and the evening news
riding on a subway train to the sleepy end of the track
i jumped up and saw you struggling on your back
i saw new lines spreading across your worried face
the race was being run while you hurried to keep pace
and there was a crowd and they were being loud
but you didn't seem to care when they pulled your hair
a woman and a man shouted and you stood
i heard them tell you what was bad and what was good
but what could you hear when your back was turned
i remember asking what the hell you learn ed
with cigarette smoke in your mouth and a song written on the floor
i heard what you promised but i needed more
so why don't you go
looking for a modern dog and pony show
and tell me everything you think you know
about making love either in a hurry or going slow;
about getting ripe and growing old:
was it worth looking for that precious pot of gold?
was it just waiting to be found
in a far northern Yukon underground?
or at the disappearing end of an afternoon rainbow?
tell me everything you think you know.