Jerry, My Friend Lyrics

Like ceramics, buildings tumbling

Sight gags and smokestacks

Shakespeare in Time Square smuggling

Lip gloss and handbags

Wolves on the watch for the pilots and their pistols

The wires sway like the towers above them

Dimebags, daffodils and penny whistles

If this doesn't sound familiar it's because I've never been to New York

The rattle of the rain and the cinnamon whiskey

On the chimney sweeps perspiring forehead

Blisters on his feet, hands of obsidian

The last laugh of a doorman

Revolving as if loaded or on a ferris wheel

Lonely backseat cold

Dramamine and alcohol

Primrose mud-flaps, popsicles

Tell me is there something more than this I should know?

Spliff at the skate park before the show

Rhinestone rifles and rodeos

Crossed state lines for tobacco

Spent the last of my change on a cherry coke-

Ball caps tattered edges

Chipping fingernail paint

Faintly recall that your wrist was sprained

Divets in the pool table fabric

Indented like dimples on a water mattress

Eight ball popped off the edge and chipped on the ground

There's smoke outside and carnivorous

Calendar men with clove cigarettes

Lining the pockets of their jackets next to retired cassettes

Jerry my friend, when will you start signing again?

The drinks have gone warm in the time since you left

Last call's coming and we haven't picked up the check

My chest hurts

Lonely basement cold

Bruises sore on my hip-bones

Arose to the stutter of the stove

Stan's pack was there, but he was gone

Stole a smoke, strolled and talked on the phone

You were scared like a chaperone

I just didn't want to be alone

Returned to locked doors, sat outside and got stoned

The shadows of the flag wrapped like a handkerchief on the headstones