PUT IT DOWN

I - You can lie like a television baby flying innocent like a blue eyed dove / You can stand by a fountain 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 picture of a crying spanish painter he was standing in a barroom full of whores / 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 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 / Cause 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 in 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 - Put it down

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 staff 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 quickly 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 / Cause tomorrow the morning comes so bright 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 gotta put it down so gently cause it will drop if you let it fall / Ah its the rainy season of my memory and I'm just gonna let it all fall
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