Back before I was a movie star
straight off of the farm
I had a picture of
another man's wife
tattooed on my arm
With a pack of Camel cigarettes
in the sleeve of my T-shirt
I'm headin' out to Hollywood
just to have my feelings hurt
That town will make you crazy
just give it a little time
You'll be walking
'round in circles
down at Hollywood and Vine
You'll be waitin'
on a phone call
at the wrong end of a broom
Yes that town will make you crazy
crazy as a loon
So I headed down to Nashville
to become a country star
Every night
you'd find me hangin'
at every honky-tonk and bar
Pretty soon I met a woman
pretty soon she'd done me wrong
Pretty soon my life got sadder
than any country song
That town will make you crazy
just give it a little time
You'll be walking
'round in circles
lookin' for that country rhyme
You'll be waitin'
on a phone call
at the wrong end of a broom
Yea that town will make you crazy
crazy as a loon
So I gathered up my savvy
bought myself a business suit
I headed up to New York City
where a man can make some loot
I got hired Monday morning
downsized that afternoon
Overcome with grief
that evening
now I'm crazy as a loon
So I'm up here
in the North Woods
just staring at a lake
Wondering just exactly how much
they think a man can take
I eat fish to pass the time away
neath this blue Canadian moon
This old world has made me crazy
crazy as a loon
Lord this world
will make you crazy
crazy as a loon