Have A Lucky Day

I feel lucky I just feel that way
I'm on a bus to Atlantic City later on today
Now I'm siting at a blackjack table
And swear to God the dealer has a tag says Mabel
Hit me hit me I smile at Mabel
Soon they're bringing complimentary drinks to the table

Players win and winners play
Have a lucky day
Players win and winners play
Have a lucky day

Mabel gives me a great big smile
She's getting to know me she's on my side
I'm a winner
I'm a winner
I'm a winner
And I came to play
Now I know why they say

Players win and winners play
Have a lucky day
Players win and winners play
Have a lucky day
Have a lucky day

Now I'm down a little in fact I'm down a lot
I'm on a roller coaster ride that I can't stop
Yeah my luck has changed but she'll come back
That's the beauty of a game of chance
I can't loose forever but I'm doomed to try
Keep on hearing a voice inside

Players win and winners play
Have a lucky day
Players win and winners play
Have a lucky day
Have a lucky day

Kerouac

Kerouac yea Kerouac
His words the words so many words just
All brothers of the same horn sisters the saxophone
Notes music words a melody a quote a figure eight a figure
If you listen close to the drummer
It's like a mirror and your invisible
Like your in a back seat
No handles on the doors just a beautiful driver up front
She knows where she's going
Kerouac the observation machine
Caressing the most passing of scenes with photographic love
Passionate photographic love
venerable as anyone knew
His memories pull shades up and down
Doors are not done telegrams arrive
Every morning something extra ???
Remembering everything like a snatch of melody
A drumbeat remembering mythologizing
So fast all the time moving
The words the words are drumsticks pounding out drum beats
Like a monk like a monk melody
With mistakes yea mistakes and sudden inspirations
Edges corners explosions convections
All fast through a slow motion landscape
Yea fast through a slow motion landscape

Mail

Mail
Letters papers and packages
Delivered by carrier and train and planes
Sent and delivered through post
Regardless of sunshine or rains

Carriers delivered to home in person
Letters, packages and paper
They may have some fun and arrive a little later

Trucks outdoor boxes and farms to assigned destination
There is no alarm no accurate devastation

Planes United States from Canada to Mexico destination as stated
Fuel gas from Texaco scheduled as noted

Train to outer station where mail bags deploy
The crew is allowed rations nothing is destroyed

Mail
Letters, papers, packages
Delivered by carrier train and plane
Sent and delivered through post
Regardless of sunshine or rains

Carriers delivered to home in person
Letters, packages and paper
They may have some fun and arrive a little later

Mile High

Nothing's going to shake me
Nothing's going to bring me down
Nothing's going to shake me
Nothings going to make me change
That's the way I am and I'll always be the same
Yea oh
Nothings going to shake me
Nothings going to make me change
That's the way I am and I'll always be the same
And it's 1 2 3 4 everybody out the door
Let's go everyone everbody's got a gun
1 2 3 today is so easy
It's just a little bit of that simple simplicity ow
Everything is shimmering
(1 2 3 4 everybody out the door)
Let's go ? fast
(let's go everyone everybody's got a gun)
And everything that happened to me
(1 2 3 today is so easy)
Happened to me for the best
(it's just a little bit of that simple simplicity)
Ow
I got an action packed extravaganta
I got a sweet haiku
I got the cash to cover the action
I got the soul food
There's a flag I wanna fly
A mountain that I put in time
I was always on my way
Nothing's going to shake me
Nothing's going to make me change
That's the way I am and I'll always be the same
Mile high (x6)

My Brain

my whole brain was out of tune
my whole brain was out of tune
I don't know how to tune a brain, do you?

went in to a brain shop
they said they'd have to rebuild the whole head
I said well, do what you gotta do

when i got my brain back, it didn't work right
didn't have as many good ideas
haven't really have a good idea since i got it fixed

Pulled Over The Car

I was drivin my car
I was drivin my car
I was gettin kinda tired, so I pulled over the car
I pulled over the car
I pulled over the car
I got out of the car, walked around the car
I got a little air, I felt better
I got back in the car
I got back in the car
well as soon as I got back behind the wheel I felt tired again
so I pulled over the car
I pulled over the car
I got out of the car, walked around the car
I got a little air, I felt better
I felt better
I felt much, much better
so I got back in the car
I got back in the car
well as soon as I got back behind the wheel I felt all tired again
so I pulled over the car
I pulled over the car
I got out of the car, walked around the car
I got a little air, I felt better
I got a little air, I felt better
I felt much, much, much, much better

I got back in the car
I got back in the car
don't you know as soon as I got back behind the wheel
I felt all sleepy and tired again
well I can't keep pulling over every fifteen minutes
just because I feel a little sleepy and tired
so I kept on driving
(fell asleep at the wheel)
yes I kept on driving
(fell asleep at the wheel)
I hit a truck
I hit a truck
I got out of the car, walked around the car
and checked it out
totaled

Shame

I felt bad but there was nothing I could do about it
Nothing I could do to make it go away
I felt bad but there was nothing I could do to change it
Nothing I could do to make things change
This is my shame (x2)
I felt bad but I keep trying to kid myself about it
Trying to tell myself it was an honest mistake
I felt bad but what's done is done
Just one thing remains
This is my shame (x2)
I know your mad at me
I know you want to cut my throat
I know you think I think it's all a joke
I don't (x2)
I felt bad but there was nothing I could do about it
Nothing I could do to make it go away
I woke up and thought
Everything's going to be alright
Everything's going to be ok
Then it hit me like a wave (x2)
This is my shame (x3)
Woh

Album: Like Swimming (1997)

Early to bed

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman miss out on the night life
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman miss out on the night life
One drink call it a early night
Soon you're curled up beneath the reading light
Or you bathe in the TV's blue tint
On your pillow an after-dinner mint
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman miss out on the night life
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman miss out on the night life
Early to bed so you can wait
For three buses a trolley and a train
I think it's worth it for you to stay awake
Maybe tomorrow you'll be a little late
But early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman miss out on the night life
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman miss out on the night life
You'll miss out on the night life (x2)

Eleven O' Clock

Ah! Hey!
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
I go out
I go out
Oh!

Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
I go out
I go out
Out

Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
Every night about
Every night about
Every night about
Eleven O'Clock
I go out
I go out
I go out

Empty Box

Tore open a package it was an empty box
No meaning to me just an empty box
Sender was a woman
Sender was a woman
She said she's sending me everything that I I I never gave her before
She said fill it up and send it back
Fill it up and send it back
So I send her back an empty box
A big mistake sent back an empty box
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound
I crossed into a valley a valley so dark
That when I look back I can't see where I begin
I can't see my hands
I don't even know if my eyes are open
In the morning I was by the sea
And I swam out as far as I could swim
Until I was too tired to swim anymore
And then I floated and tried to get my strength back
And then an empty box came floating by
An empty box and I crawled inside
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound in the night
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound