on my way to the grocer on a rainy saturday in a strange town somewhere near montgomery someone at an intersection asked me for directions to a church on birch street where they had to meet their people for a funeral
i said i’m sorry for your loss because i’ve borne that cross and i wish i could help but i’m a stranger here myself and i’m a little bit lost and confused about where i am, man
yeah, i’m just passing through
i’m just passing through
i’m trying to get to my home back up north where i used to live but i got waylaid by things i can’t control that hurt my soul so i stayed and i prayed
i’m just passing through
that i might understand what this world is trying to tell me and sell me and if there’s a god and if he befell me because i’m sure hell ain’t real and i question heaven too
yeah, i’m just passing through
you know sometimes i wake up in the night and something don’t feel right like there’s an eminent threat remnant of my childhood with sinister characters up to no good taking liberties to appease themselves by creating others’ miseries
and i’ve tried so hard in this life to be a man and i had a wife and we had a daughter that didn’t make it and another one that i’ve had to fight to protect through abuse and neglect and it scares me to leave her alone but i know someday I will, it’s true
because i’m just passing through
i’m just passing through
god i get so tired of all the bullshit i see going on around me and i want to be free from the drama and the trauma delivered by people in power getting worse by the hour
i’m just passing through
and I wonder if there’s really something on the other side, a place to reside where there’s just a little more peace and no beasts or burdens or heartbreak making me blue
yeah, i’m just passing through
i’m trying to get to the other side
there’s gotta be something better
i ain’t ready for my own funeral
but i need a change of weather
so i got to the store and i bought a few things to get me by a few days because you never know when the whole thing’s gonna blow and you’ll just slip away into the unknown and maybe that’s home or maybe it’s not but right now the here and now is all i’ve got so i’ll make the best of it yeah, that’s what i’ll do
because i’m just passing through
i’m just passing through
and lord knows there’s a reason that i’ve spent all my seasons doing best i could and i might not be perfect but i’ve tried to be good and i’ve believed even when the christians turned away
i’m just passing through
so if i die tonight i hope i might find the corridor to another place with lots of space and another level where everybody ain’t in my face for every little thing i do
i’m just passing through
i’m trying to get to the other side
yeah, i’m just passing through
there’s gotta be something better
huh, i’m just passing through
i ain’t ready for my own funeral
i’m just passing though
but we need a change of weather
yeah, i’m just passing through
Words Copyright 2026 by Dan Steven Erickson