Rock and Roll hoochi-coo!
Edith Sitwell giving readings, 14 Moscow Road,
Osbert’s giving champagne parties, Sachie’s got a cold,
Gertrude’s hanging pictures, Alice making tea,
Me, I do the only thing that still makes sense to me:
I do the Rock,
I do the Rock.
Zip! Walter Lippman wasn’t brilliant today.
Zip! Will Saroyan ever write a great play?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night.
Zip! And I think that Schopenhauer was right.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Zippy! From Mars to any Main Streeet
Zippy! It’s Cap’n Crunch and lunch meat
The polka-dotted pinhead that’s workin’ his way
In to your artificial hearts today
Zippy, Zippy, Zippy…
You don’t need a pinhead just to hang around,
But if you’ve got a nickel, won’t you lay your money down?
Over on the corner there’s a happy noise.
People come from all around to watch the magic boy.
My name is Michael, I’ve got a nickel, I’ve got a nickel shiny and new,
I’m gonna buy me all kinds of candy, that’s what I’m gonna do.
So what becomes of all the little boys
Who never say their prayers?
They’re sleepin’ like a baby
On the nickel over there
My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you’ve seen me before
If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don’t ask me what it was
Just don’t ask me what it was
Just don’t ask me what it was
All the waiters in your grand cafe,
Leave their tables when you blink.
Every dog must have his every day,
Every drunk must have his drink.
Don’t wait for answers,
Just take your chances,
Don’t ask me why.
Tell me why you cried and why you lied to me…[ditto]…
Only so many tears you can cry
Till the heartache is over
And now you can say your love
Will never die
I am a rock
I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries
Nm
Nevermind
Nevermind
The war was lost
The treaty signed
There’s truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don’t know which
So, nevermind
(Did you have that one in your pocket?) War is over if you want it…
If you want it, here it is, come and get it
But you’d better hurry ‘cause it’s goin’ fast.
I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it–
You cannnn’t have it!
Every day you’ll see the dust (too much, magic bus),
As I drive my baby in my magic bus (too much, magic bus).
You want it all but you can’t have it
It’s in your face but you can’t grab it
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself because I love you,
Yes I do.
And when you give me that pretty little pout, it turns me inside out.
There’s something about you, baby, I don’t know.