Jimmy Reed

I, stole the train out of your dream now you're full of bitter themes standing by the fruit machines you showed me what ambition means. you're a highly paid actress struggling to get work as a waitress, you ran away from the circus to go to school, this ripe tomato that you call your brain is beginning, to get on my nerves again Oh David, you said, sometimes life gets complicated the telephone sweet telephone the kind of talk I've always hated yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah baby you don't have to go, yeah, yeah yeah yeah cos Jimmy Reed he told you so I would like to die tonight without any feelings of guilt, no use cryin over all the milk I've spilled, on bedrooms floors, behind closed doors, on silk tight ladies bellies well I called about your hair your legs your eyes your mouth your skin and I got drunk and fell asleep and dreamed of all the places you had been, every dream ended in violence, the rest is silence David, you said, my mouth is sweet as pink ice cream David you said, I will get you in my dreams oh yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah? yeah? baby you don't have to go, yeah Jimmy Reed he told you so, yeah (short solo) Well it's raining, squirrels, hedgehogs, pigs and moths and I am in my bedroom worshiping fake gods Gene Simmons tongue it keeps the world turning you stalk my liver with a volcanic quiver, my pancreas is burning David, you said I live my life like birthday cake every year another layer, every year a new mistake yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yayayayayeah oh baby you don't have to go, yeah, yeah ya know Jimmy Reed he told you so, yeah Your swimming trunks, your cigarettes, your dusty Spanish castanets your childish brothers childish threats, the (______?) microwave cooking. It took you a month to learn my name now I wish you would forget it all the stuff you said would mess up my head but don't worry I do not let it. David you said, sometimes I feel like I lost a bet, when boys blow kisses at my (___? __? ________?), it burns my soul like a cigarette, oh yeah! I said yeah, I said yayayayayayayeaheyeahyeah baby you don't have to go, yeah, I said yeah ya know Jimmy Reed he told you so, yeah, yeah oh baby you don't have to go, no no no no no no no no no no no Jimmy Reed he told you so --7---3---3---2---5------------1- --6---3---5---4---5------------3- --9---4---5---4---6------------3- --9---5---5---4---7------------3- --7---5---3---2---7------------1- -(0)--3---x---x---5------------x-