(Words and Music by Elliott Murphy)
I.
You can lie like a television baby flying innocent like a blue eyed dove
You can stand by a f***ain with your landlord pitching coins but it ain't gonna bring you luck
Cause I will know where you are and why and how and whatever that behavior well it really sucks
But the time we were young - was the time when my passion was on the run
And the time we were young - oh well now our love seems to be all eaten up
Put it down
II.
The elite troopers of the harmonica commandos - they were marching to the John Sousa band
And I knew we was somewhere to the west of never never never never never never neverland
I saw no snow on the mountains but I knew the iceman he was coming anyway
But that's another story for a rainy day
That's another set of rules for another game I'm gonna play
Put it down
III.
Well I was resting and I picked up a magazine in the restroom and I opened it to the page
it was opened to before
There was a pcture of a crying Spanish painter he was standing in a barroom full of w****s
But his model she was nowhere to be seen cause she died just a year before drinking absinthe
on the quai with an African named Louis Amour
drinking absinthe on the quai D'Orsay with an African named Louis Amour - that's right
IV.
So I rode into the galleria and I went to my favorite toy-shop
And I loaded up my BB gun so when I saw that lamppost I could give it a good shot
You know I missed by a mile or three -
Although the truth was I wouldn't have broken it if I could
The truth was my heart was already cracked although no one could see
Yeah the truth was my bulb was burned out and there was absolutely no life,
no light left inside me Hmmmmm.
V.
So I went down by the frontier watching the troops in black silk skate past
I was sipping ginger ale
and a near beer at the Martinez and knew these good times couldn't last
There was some kinda demonstration going on down o the Midem market place of sounds
Ah but man I was so out of it I didn't know if it was laughter
or if somebody was about to drown
Yeah I was so completely out of it and my consciousness had just left town
VI.
So once again I sipped across the old border when the guards were looking the other way
At a parade of retired revolutionaries - We all raised our hands and said hip hip hooray
And than came the dirty general and his staft - And man they were as infected as can be
When they tried to shake my hand - I said please don't touch me
So they all put their dress gloves on and said now we're gonna do it to you for free -
That's right
VII
So I found a shoe that i was comfortable in - it was back - it was soft - it was suede
And I'm gonna walk a thousand miles to your house - if I could just get out of the Lincoln brigade
See I had misplaced ideals - they were lost in the sixties or before
And the present was changing so rapidly and the future was already a bore
Yeah things were changing so fast but even Bill Gates couldn't tell me what for
That's right
VIII
So you better change your eyeglasses you better change your underwear
But I won't change my mind
Because now I'm trying to be nice to you but you're gonna wait till the very next time
When I'm gonna tell you what I really think - I'm a gonna pull no punches at oil
And like the true sportsman that I've always been I'm gonna say I'm gonna pass the ball
And the stadium will rise in a grand unison and we're gonna watch you take a fall
Ah that's all.. .that's all
IX
Now can you tell me why they make the telephone books yellow - Why they make the toilettes white
Can you tell me whose been screeching tires around my corner when its the middle of the night
And why I am alone again - But why am I at peace Is it just that lonesome Hurricane weather
ah but the season is so brief
When the barometric pressure it allows my good pants to finally keep a crease -
Oh mama..
X
You know I've stayed in this motel before perhaps in this very some room I think we slept together
in this queen sized bed together under the silver golden anniversary moon
And there was still some kinda mystery back then - Ah that's what I liked about you
Back when I was a detective - you were my own best clue
But the case it was never really solved - Because you alibi so guicky fell through
That's right fell through
XI
Now that's eleven verses - Its after midnight and I gotta go I gotta pack my bags tonight -
Couse tomorrow the morning comes so brigbt and early and so bright -
And I wonder who am I singing to -
When there's just me and the carpet and the wall its the rainy season of my memory -
I hear drops of recollections leaking down the hall
And a memory you gotto put it down so gently cause it will drop if you let it foil
Ah its the rainy seson ot my memory and I'm just gonna let it all tall
Put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down
Petit down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down
I.
You can lie like a television baby flying innocent like a blue eyed dove
You can stand by a f***ain with your landlord pitching coins but it ain't gonna bring you luck
Cause I will know where you are and why and how and whatever that behavior well it really sucks
But the time we were young - was the time when my passion was on the run
And the time we were young - oh well now our love seems to be all eaten up
Put it down
II.
The elite troopers of the harmonica commandos - they were marching to the John Sousa band
And I knew we was somewhere to the west of never never never never never never neverland
I saw no snow on the mountains but I knew the iceman he was coming anyway
But that's another story for a rainy day
That's another set of rules for another game I'm gonna play
Put it down
III.
Well I was resting and I picked up a magazine in the restroom and I opened it to the page
it was opened to before
There was a pcture of a crying Spanish painter he was standing in a barroom full of w****s
But his model she was nowhere to be seen cause she died just a year before drinking absinthe
on the quai with an African named Louis Amour
drinking absinthe on the quai D'Orsay with an African named Louis Amour - that's right
IV.
So I rode into the galleria and I went to my favorite toy-shop
And I loaded up my BB gun so when I saw that lamppost I could give it a good shot
You know I missed by a mile or three -
Although the truth was I wouldn't have broken it if I could
The truth was my heart was already cracked although no one could see
Yeah the truth was my bulb was burned out and there was absolutely no life,
no light left inside me Hmmmmm.
V.
So I went down by the frontier watching the troops in black silk skate past
I was sipping ginger ale
and a near beer at the Martinez and knew these good times couldn't last
There was some kinda demonstration going on down o the Midem market place of sounds
Ah but man I was so out of it I didn't know if it was laughter
or if somebody was about to drown
Yeah I was so completely out of it and my consciousness had just left town
VI.
So once again I sipped across the old border when the guards were looking the other way
At a parade of retired revolutionaries - We all raised our hands and said hip hip hooray
And than came the dirty general and his staft - And man they were as infected as can be
When they tried to shake my hand - I said please don't touch me
So they all put their dress gloves on and said now we're gonna do it to you for free -
That's right
VII
So I found a shoe that i was comfortable in - it was back - it was soft - it was suede
And I'm gonna walk a thousand miles to your house - if I could just get out of the Lincoln brigade
See I had misplaced ideals - they were lost in the sixties or before
And the present was changing so rapidly and the future was already a bore
Yeah things were changing so fast but even Bill Gates couldn't tell me what for
That's right
VIII
So you better change your eyeglasses you better change your underwear
But I won't change my mind
Because now I'm trying to be nice to you but you're gonna wait till the very next time
When I'm gonna tell you what I really think - I'm a gonna pull no punches at oil
And like the true sportsman that I've always been I'm gonna say I'm gonna pass the ball
And the stadium will rise in a grand unison and we're gonna watch you take a fall
Ah that's all.. .that's all
IX
Now can you tell me why they make the telephone books yellow - Why they make the toilettes white
Can you tell me whose been screeching tires around my corner when its the middle of the night
And why I am alone again - But why am I at peace Is it just that lonesome Hurricane weather
ah but the season is so brief
When the barometric pressure it allows my good pants to finally keep a crease -
Oh mama..
X
You know I've stayed in this motel before perhaps in this very some room I think we slept together
in this queen sized bed together under the silver golden anniversary moon
And there was still some kinda mystery back then - Ah that's what I liked about you
Back when I was a detective - you were my own best clue
But the case it was never really solved - Because you alibi so guicky fell through
That's right fell through
XI
Now that's eleven verses - Its after midnight and I gotta go I gotta pack my bags tonight -
Couse tomorrow the morning comes so brigbt and early and so bright -
And I wonder who am I singing to -
When there's just me and the carpet and the wall its the rainy season of my memory -
I hear drops of recollections leaking down the hall
And a memory you gotto put it down so gently cause it will drop if you let it foil
Ah its the rainy seson ot my memory and I'm just gonna let it all tall
Put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down
Petit down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down put it down