The sidewalk coughed up weeds and cracks A book, a magazine and a penny and a dime Oh, and Carl looked behind him making sure the scene was empty Breathed
Make a dent in the shovel, run the mud through a sieve Paste your hopes on a windmill blade, plant it up on the hill Pencil sharpened with a putty knife
This makes as much sense as a frog on a chain A leper knocking trees down with his fist Twisting my ear like I'm a school yard churl You know I wanna
Well, Double R.J. is older now, he stays up watching the night snow fall Black bound book on the table, dusty beside card tricks and games Yeah, one by
Ginger had dyed her hair red to fit her name Burny pocked his arms with a pack of Camel Lights Long sleeves outdoors to keep the kids from crying And
It was not two days, night and a day And I look back at the man I was before A sorry stranger banged up on a shore Your warm arms tore the walls down
Tried my hand at company, wine poured out for two Blue charade that I have made while lying next to you Take the next thing home, my dear, leave me to
lasses have forgotten how to play Hard pressed to find one, hard pressed to find one Who ever learned how to sing Slingshot Slingshot Slingshot
Watch it bounce like water, meat under the stone Throw up a leg and try to beg your way back home Smell the coffee boil in the corner pot Everything's
Bourbon soda over ice in the basement shade Got it made, no one here, just the beer man's dog Howlin' at the moon heat, gnawin' on a bone Waiting for