verse 1 Hey, my little baby, pointing at the sky's amazing in the lake now. All of this sensation and no space on earth to place it where it's safe now. You've got a big day coming. A big day coming now. verse 2 Gather, crowd, around me, in the gutter where you found me. Help me stand now. My body, it is aching, and my poor old heart is breaking, and I'm so freaked out. We've got a big chance coming. A big chance coming now. verse 3 All the little Sadies and the literary ladies wish me well now. A slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun now. I hightail my cool haircut through the turnstiles of the airport on the run now Flip a couple hundred pages; I was turning thirty-eight. I was a horrible sight. You've got a bad day coming. A sad day coming 'round. I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last mass now. N.C. Okay. Bridge Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guess. Said, "I have lost all will to," with my face pressed against your breast. And I have pilfered the king's pills From the palace medicine chest. I cried a quart of crocodile tears onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass. I was escorted from the premises for being a mess. verse 4 And it's just like when John Howe told me how the Force MDs died. Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low. Mercury had a heart attack back in '95. And where DJ Doctor Rock went nobody knows. Verse 5 I see my grandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes. But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park, out of cocaine and codeine all alone. It was a big waste, brother. Such a big waste. Yeah, I know. They had some great songs; must have been a great time, so long ago. But I didn't open up my mouth just to piss and moan. N.C. No way. Outro All the air is glitter and I went and hit the skating rink alone now. I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice. They look so nice. It was so cold out. And then I coughed into my cupped hands across the rink so I could hear the band. Two guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a Kurzweil on a keyboard stand. And I said, "Play that cover," I said, "Play that cover song again."
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