Hey, look out for my glass up there, man! <br />
That's my drink, man, that's my drink, alright... <br />
Make it a double, or eh... <br />
Somebody has to sing <br />
Some body will sing? <br />
Somebody will sing, right? <br />
(I don't know!) <br />
<br />
Y'all pass me that bottle, <br />
And I'll sing you all a real song <br />
Yeah! <br />
Let me get my key, ahum! <br />
<br />
Well, I'm looking through Harlem <br />
My stomach squeal just a little more <br />
A stagecoach full of feathers and footprints, <br />
Pulls up to soap box door <br />
Now a lady with a pearl handled necktie <br />
Tied to the driver's fence <br />
Breathes in my face, <br />
Bourbon and coke possessed words <br />
& "Haven't I seen you somewhere in hell, <br />
Or was it just an accident?" <br />
(You know how I felt then, and so:) <br />
<br />
Before I could ask "was it the East or West side?" <br />
My feet they howled in pain <br />
The wheels of a bandwagon cut very deep, <br />
But not as deep in my mind as the rain <br />
And as they pulled away I could see her words <br />
Stagger and fall on my muddy tent <br />
Well I picked them up, brushed them off, <br />
To see what they say, <br />
And you wouldn't believe: <br />
`Come around to my room, with the tooth in the middle, <br />
And bring along the bottle and a president' <br />
<br />
And eh sometimes it's not so easy, baby <br />
Especially when your only friend, <br />
Talks, sees, looks and feels like you, <br />
And you do just the same as him <br />
(Gets very lonely up this road, baby) <br />
(Yeah, hmmm, yeah) <br />
(Got more to say!) <br />
<br />
Well I'm riding through LA (huh), <br />
On a bicycle built for fools <br />
And I seen one of my old buddies <br />
And he say, "you don't look the way you usually do" <br />
I say, "well, some people look like a coin-box" <br />
He say, "look like you ain't got no coins to spare" <br />
And I laid back and I thought to myself, and I said this: <br />
I just picked up my pride from underneath the pay phone, <br />
And combed this breath right out of my hair <br />
And sometimes it's not so easy <br />
Especially when your only friend <br />
Talk, sees, looks and feels like you, <br />
And you do just the same as him <br />
<br />
Just got out of a Scandinavian jail, <br />
And I'm on my way straight home to you <br />
But I feel so dizzy I take a quick look in the mirror, <br />
To make sure my friend's here with me too <br />
And you know good well I don't drink coffee, <br />
So you fill my cup full of sand <br />
And the frozen tea leaves on the bottom <br />
Sharing lipstick around the broken edge <br />
And my coat that you let your dog lay by the fire on <br />
And your cat he attacked me from his pill-box ledge <br />
And I thought you were my friend too <br />
Man, my shadow comes in line before you <br />
I'm finding out that it's eh not so easy <br />
Specially when your only friend <br />
Talks, looks, sees and feels like you, <br />
And you do the same just like him <br />
<br />
(Lord it's so lonely here, hmmm, yeah) <br />
Yeah! <br />
(Pass me that bottle over there...) <br />
Yeah, yeah, okay...