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Dreamin'
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If I close my eyes I see your face and I'm not without you If I try hard and concentrate I can still hear you speak I picture myself in your room by the chair you're smoking a cigarette If I close my eyes I can see your face you're saying, "I missed you" Dreamin' - I'm always dreamin'
If I close my eyes I can smell your perfume you look and say "Hi baby" If I close my eyes pictures from China still hang from the wall I hear the dog bark I turned and say, "what were you saying?" I pictured you in the red chair inside the pale room You sat in your chair with a tube in your arm - you were so skinny You were still making jokes I don't know what drugs they had you on You said, " I guess this is not the time for long term investments" You were always laughing but you never laughing at me
They say in the end the pain was so bad that you were screaming Now you were no saint but you deserved better than that From the corner I watch them moving things from your apartment But I can picture you red chair and pale room inside my head
If I close my eyes I see your face and I'm not without you If I try hard and concentrate I can hear your voice saying, "Who better than you" If I close my eyes I can't believe that I'm here without you Inside your pale room your empty red chair and my head Dreamin' , I'm always dreamin'
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Hello It's Me
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Andy it's me, haven't seen you in a while I wished I talked to you more when you were alive I thought you were self-assured when you acted shy Hello it's me
I really miss you, I really miss your mind I haven't heard ideas like that in such a long, long time I loved to watch you draw and watch you paint But when I saw you last, I turned away
When Billy Name was sick and locked up in his room You asked me for some speed, I though it was for you I'm sorry that I doubted your good heart Things always seem to end before they start
Hello it's me, that was a great gallery show Your cow wallpaper and your floating silver pillows I wish I paid more attention when they laughed at you Hello it's me
"Pop goes pop artist," the headline said "Is shooting a put-on, is Warhol really dead ?" You get less time for stealing a car I remember thinking as I heard my own record in a bar
They really hated you, now all that's changed But I have some resentments that can never be unmade You hit me where it hurt I didn't laugh Your Diaries are not a worthy epitaph
Oh well now Andy, guess we've got to go I hope some way somehow you like this little show I know it's late in coming but it's the only way I know Hello it's me, goodnight Andy Goodbye, Andy
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Last Great American Whale
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They say he didn't have an enemy His was a greatness to behold He was the last surviving progeny The last one on this side of the world
He measured half a mile from tip to tail silver and black with powerful fins They say he could split a mountain in two That's how we got the Grand Canyon
Last Great American Whale X4
Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes Some say they saw him off the coast of Florida My mother said she saw him in Chinatown but you can't always trust your mother
Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day The lighthouse glow ghostly there at night The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son and he'd been on death row since 1958
The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig spit on Indians and lots worse The old chief buried a hatchet in his head life compared to death for him seemed worse
The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing and tried to conjure up a storm or rain The harbor parted and the great whale sprang full up and caused a hugh tidal wave
The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief The tribe let out a roar The whites were drowned the browns and reds set free but sadly one thing more
Some local yokel member of the NRA kept a bazooka in his living room and thinking he had the chief in his sight blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon
Last Great American Whale X4
Well Americans don't care for much of anything land and water the least And animal life is low on the totem pole with human life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don't care too much for beauty They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach and complain if they can't swim
They say things are done for the majority Don't believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear It's a lot like what my painter friend Donald said to me "Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done"
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My Old Man
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When I was a young boy in Brooklyn Going to public school During recess in the concrete playground They lined us up by twos In alphabetical order, Reagan, Reed and Russo I still remember the names And stickball and stoopball Were the only games that we played And I wanted to be like my old man I wanted to grow up just like my old man I wanted to be like my old man I wanted to dress like I wanted to be just like I wanted to act like my old man I wanted to be like I wanted to act like I wanted to be just like my old man
And then like everyone else I started to grow And I didn't want to be like my father anymore I was sick if his bullying And having to hide under a desk on the floor And when he beat my mother It made me so mad I could choke And I didn't want to be like my old man I didn't even want to look like my old man I didn't even want to seem like my old man
A son watches his father Being cruel to his mother And makes a vow to return only when He is so much richer In every way so much bigger That the old man will never hit anyone again
Like my old man
And can you believe what he said to me He said, "Lou, act like a man" Why don't you act just like a man Act like your daddy Act like a man Why don't you act like a man Like your old man
Like my old man
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Slip Away (A Warning)
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Friends have said to lock the door and have an open house no more The said the Factory must change and slowly slip away
But if I have to live in fear where will I get my ideas With all those crazy people gone will I slowly slip away
Still there's no more Billy Name and Ondine is not the same Wonton and the Turtle gone Slowly slip away Slowly slip away
If I close the Factory door and don't see those people anymore If I give in to infamy I'll slowly slip away
I know it seems that friends are right Hello daylight, goodbye night But starlight is so quiet here Think I'll slowly slip away
What can I do by myself it's good to here from someone else It's good to hear a crazy voice That will not slip away Will not slip away
If I have to live in fear my ideas will slowly slip away
If I have to live in fear I'm afraid my life will slip away
If you can't see me past my door Why your thoughts could slowly slip away
If I have to lock the door another life exists no more slip away
Friends have said to lock the door Watch out for who comes through the door They said the Factory must change
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