All the Way There and All the Way Back (song lyric)

I went for a ride – on the back of my old blues harp.
Chasin’ the blue notes, sevenths and sharps
blowin’ the steel real hard.
I went as low as it is to go
and up so high I grazed the sky.
All on the back of a beaten up old blues harp.

I made my blues harp scream like a nervous wreck
I made it wail with every breath…
I set it afire and it burned to ash,
on its funeral pyre – I heard it crack
It lay in the fire, I lay among empty bottles of cognac
Yet it carried me all the way there and all the way back.

Went lookin’ for love, heard that was enough to live.
Chased the moon around the universe
had only my music to give.
Found plenty of arms with illusory charms;
Got into beds but didn’t stay in heads,
made a hell of a lot of love to – but not much with.

I made my blues harp scream like a nervous wreck
I made it wail with every breath…
I set it afire and it burned to ash
On its funeral pyre – I heard it crack
but it rose like Lazarus, showed me another track
and carried me all the way there and all the way back.

Found myself in a chasm so deep and dark.
Terror-struck, I was too scared
to go on or back.
Kept alive by those notes and chords
Felt the rising of a resurrection force
that took me all the way there, and all the way back

I made my blues harp scream like a nervous wreck.
I made it wail with every breath…
I set it afire and it burned to ash,
on its funeral pyre – I heard it crack;
I clutched the feathers of the phoenix, held on like a maniac
and it carried me all the way there and all the way back.