I never knew Frances Farmer just a picture from a friend that I look at everyday her head cocked over her shoulder and eyes far away
I never knew Frances Farmer I just knew she was an actress that never quite fit in but I feel her lying next to me, breathing in my arms with translucent skin
I never knew Frances Farmer but her lips could tell me secrets that the world will never know A world she left so long ago
I never knew Frances Farmer but I couldn't know her better if she was sitting here today Shock treatments and lobotomies for things you should not say
Rising son,, rising sun beating down on me I'm my Daddy's rising son, world in front of me But daddy, he ain't smilin' none, what could the problem be? Hejust asys "My foolish one. you live too dangerously" But, Daddy, I ain't hurtin' none, she's spread in front of me I'd be a fool not to taste the pleasures offered me But, Daddy, he just turns away and locks it with a key the thirty years years between us must have changed him bitterly
I took my money into town and spread it gingerly Every table I laid it down, world in front of me Wine and women, women, wine taste so honey sweet Every pleasure overshelming knocks me off my feet If anybody crossed my path, I'd cut them down to size self-righteousness and forward flow moved me to the prize I stayed out drinking every night, toasting to the sunrise I'm my Daddy's rising son, won't he be suprised
All the prophet prophesized my agonized defeat All the men I trampled on waited for my sleep All the women I wronged waited round with glee for the big comeuppance that was waiting mad for me It's the way of this mean world things ain't really fair The evil deal out from the bottom without a single care The goodly try the best they can to hold to what is theirs The sun it rises one more day and I'm still standing here
(I went to see an old army buddy of mine to do some drinking And his wife had become an alcoholic and I wrote a song about it)
Pay no attention to Alice she's drunk all the time Booked on that wine bunches of it and it ruined her mind Pay no attention to Alice they say she's a sot sane she is not But she loves it and it's all she's got
She made that apple pie from a memory Made them biscuits from a recolection that she had She cooked that chicken too long but she don't know that Oh what the hell it ain't too bad
Pay no attention to Alice she's drunk all the time Booked on that wine bunches of it and it ruined her mind Pay no attention to Alice they say she's a sot sane she is not But she loves it and it's all she's got
Don't talk about the war I was a coward Talk about fishing and all the good times raising hell Empty that one down we'll get another It's gettin' late we might as well
But we ran your car into a ditch man don't sweat it I know Ben down at the Shell Station he'll get it out Alice put your ashes in that ashtray I swear woman you're gonna burn down the house Pay no attention to Alice she's drunk all the time
Smell like something's burning, the kitchen is on fire, I didn't leave the oven on, you calling me a liar? Flames are in the attic everything is charred, all my waterlogged shit is laying in the yard
Smells like something's burning, it smelt that way before Something's always flaming in this neighborhood I'm sure. Everything changes so fast you never know, only ahes remain of everything I own
Smells like something's burning, smells like burning shit. Something's always stinking now that I think of it. It stinks to be you my dear, stinks to me too. Gonna burn your playhouse down if it's the last thing I do. People always seem to destroy what they love, them big ole brains steer us wrong when push comes to shove. Now I'm standing here with the matches all lit hoping that my shoopish grin will get me out of it
Smell like somthing's burning, the red-hot coals of hell, give them something to talk about and the stories they will tell about how he was a good man and how far he fell, but you'll know I'm coming by the smell
Don't call the Fire Department, this town's been burned down Flashing embers crashing through burning wall of sound Brothers like to fight but I won't be found. Ashes blowing in the breeze No one else around
It's A Saturday night, there's no one around I'm riding that train to another town Ain't got no family, ain't got no home Got nothing to leave when I'm gone
My Granddaddy hobo'd from the time he was twelve my Daddy went out and made a name for himself I should have gone out and made me one too but Baby, she left me, the train whistle blew there wasn't anything for me to do
When I die, they'll find me in here I hope that they bury me someplace nice Away from the noise, away from the ice away from the things that have haunted me for all my life
We been good to each other held each other through so much but now you're sitting there giving me that little look Don't have to ask you what it means comes a time for cutting losses, time to take what's mine and go I'll be gathering my belonging I'll be walking out the door I'll be walking out the door
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone Gonna miss me when I'm gone I'll be sad but I won't be the only one Gonna miss me when I'm gone
No use blaming one another neither one of us to blame Just picked a crazy time to cross each other's path but I'm awful glad we came
Comes a time for cutting losses, wish that time had not come Two more things before I walk out that door You're the best friend that I've known You're the best friend that I've known
Ever since the transplant, Phil has been a different man "My how Phil's changed" is all we ever hear in the checkout line, at work and home and Phil's wife has been so lonely His life was saved in skin and bone but his soul just ain't the same
"Ever since the transplant, when he holds me it feels so different" his wife calmly explained to us over coffee at the little grey diner "He suddenly don't like chocolates or jazz or foreign movies just watch the Weather Channel and The Wall Street Journal"
I changed the oil in my car and once put in a new carburetor I still have the same refrigerator and food that I put in it still tastes the same but suddenly Phil's changed
Ever since the transplant, Phil has been a different man Even his hand shake ain't the same and the doctors try to tell us it's all in our heads just our imaginations but what do they know?
When they thaw out Uncle Disney gonna be some changes made Pointing fingers, asking questions forty years of decisions made
When the thaw out Uncle Disney all us toons gonna be just fine America's just a giant theme park put on them mouse ears and get in line When they thaw out Uncle Disney boy won't he be surprised Carton cures for all his cancers Thunderclouds in the Florida skies
When the thaw out Uncle Disney You'll be coming home to me to stay I'll be waiting for you to call me as they roll the credits and the music fades When they thaw out Uncle Disney heads will roll, I'm afraid Someone will be held accounted For forty Years of decisions made
In 42, my granddad was drafted by the Army They sent him off to fight over in Germany Left my grandma at home with a brand new baby boy And my mom was born the day they bombed Hiroshima And not long after that, my granddad got to meet her
Got a job and commuted from Alabama to Kentucky But still he would have told you he was lucky Just to watch his pretty bride push them babies down the street And the way that the cars all backed up behind her
But Granddad's lost his mind cause he'd rather not remember anymore And he refuses to stop driving, so Grandma's locked his keys next door And he spends his days just looking around Looking around But he's forgotten what he's looking for He's forgotten what he's looking for
My little disaffected sex symbol you If you was any more shy, you'd break in two Break in two, break in two someone will point a camera at you
My misguided artist, you know deep down I'll root for you find some beauty in what you do hope that it's enough to pull you through Careful, you're not pulled in two
My little life-avoiding living dream It's a long hard road to everything but in the end, or so it seems Everything is overrated when you're trapped by what you've created the drone goes on and on and on
Enigmatic to a fault Chew you out and spit you up Chew you up and spit you out I don't mean to sound unsympathetic to your plight but if you're really so shy Why are you standing in the light
