I'm a soul drifter
And I'm out of this town
Ain't no use hangin' 'round
You see
My heart was broken
My part was spoken
Now the ground has opened
All around me

I'm a soul lifter
And it's out of my hands
So it's off to other lands
You see
It's a new dawn
So it's so long
For the soul lifter
The soul drifter
That's me

Oh, I'm a soul lifter
And it's out of my hands
So it's off to other lands
You see
It's a new dawn
So it's so long
For the soul lifter
The soul drifter
That's me
That's me
Yeah, that's me

I am bound away
I am bound away
I am bound away

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WEBMISTRESS speculates:

I love this song! One of my all-time favorites of Lindsey's, second only to Holiday Road. It's really uplifting, like many songs on this album. He's explaining (to Stevie? FM? Us?) that he didn't want to leave FM (see Don't Look Down) but it was time to get "out of this town." It was too hard on him to stay, creatively and emotionally.

I really like the second verse - it uses very clever word play. He's a soul "lifter" here, not "drifter" - he's lifting his soul to save it, and it's flying on its own - "it's out of [his] hands" and "off to other lands". But these expressions also apply to his attitude- he can't help that he has to leave (it's out of his hands) and he has to go "off to other lands". One of Lindsey's better lyrical efforts! He is going off to start again - "it's a new dawn." It is the beginning of the rest of his life, so he is "bound away." Such optimism on this album! It's great.