The rain sound like rocks on my window The smell of hot asphalt in June Wakin' up to the sound of a freight train It is only passin' through Filled with wood and steel from the Northlands Seem to pass more of often these days Where the new colonial people I think I heard somebody just say I think of my granddad as a railroad slave And how he drank his life away So long, so long I heard him talkin' about the golden age And how it turned into a golden haze Watchin' the fan rotating in the ceiling I'm Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now Hearin' the same sad numbers on the TV From the bed, hangin' upside down Numbed down from the lack of somethin' positive Numbed down from the lack of faith That something good is ever gonna happen That something great could come out of this place Everyone here seems so stuck in the past Prayin' that the present won't last So long, so long I heard him talkin' about the golden age And how it turned into a golden haze Everybody here is unemployed And there's nowhere else to go We're stuck here payin' off old expensive loans On a house that can't be sold And a dream that's growin' old Easing the pain with alcohol So long, my friend So long, I hope we meet again I heard him talkin' about the golden age And how it turned into a golden haze A golden haze So long, my friend So long, my friend