Committed To Parkview (From"The Highwaymen" sessions From The Highwaymen Sessions) - Johnny Cash/Willie Nelson

There's a man across the hall

Who sits starin' at the floor

He thinks he's Hank Williams

Hear him singin' through the door

There's a girl in two oh three

Who stops by to visit me

And she talks about her songs

And the star that she should be

There are lots of special people

Stayin' in or passin' through

And for one thing or another

Committed to Parkview

There's the girl in three oh seven

Comin' down on Thorazine

And a superstar's ex drummer tryin'

To kick Benzedrine

There's a boy just down below me

Who's the son of some well known

He was brought in by his mother

'Cause his daddy's always gone

There's a bum from down on Broadway

And a few quite well to do

Who have withdrawn from the rat race

And committed to Parkview

There's a girl who cries above me

Loud enough to wake the dead

They don't know what she has taken

That has scrambled up her head

There's a writer and a singer

Who has tried and tried and tried

They just brought him in this mornin'

An attempted suicide

There are those who never made it

Those who did and now are through

Some came of their own good choosing

Some committed to Parkview

They wake us about six thirty

Just before the morning meal

While they're taking blood pressure

They ask us how we feel

And I always say"Fantastic

There ain't nothing wrong with me"

And then they give me my injection

And I go right back to sleep

And the days are kind of foggy

And the nights are dreamy too

But they're takin' good care of me

Committed to Parkview