You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.
How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I’ve never seen again.
I ain’t looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.
I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.
If not for you, winter wouldn’t hold no spring, couldn’t hear a robin sing. I just wouldn’t have a clue, if not for you.
You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.
I ain’t saying you treated me unkind you could’ve done better, but I don’t mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don’t think twice, it’s alright.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.
The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.
There ought to be a law about you coming around.
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
In writing songs, I’ve learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
Black is the color, and none is the number.
If there’s an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I’ve got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don’t underestimate me I won’t underestimate you.
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
And it’s a hard, It’s a hard, It’s a hard, It’s a hard, It’s a hard rain gonna fall.