Lyrics to Put It Down

I.

You can lie like a television baby flying innocent like

a blue eyed dove

You can stand by a foutain 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 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 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