Standard (EADGBE)

 Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep

 Moonlight spills on comic books And superstars in magazines

 An old friend calls and tells us where to meet

Her plane takes off from Baltimore And touches down on Bourbon Street

We sit outside and argue all night long

About a god we've never seen But never fails to side with me

 Sunday comes and all the papers say

 Ma Teresa's joined the mob And happy with her full time job

Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do

 Am I alive or thoughts that drift away?

 Does summer come for everyone? Can humans do as prophets say?

 And if I die before I learn to speak

 Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?

PIANO INTERLUDE

 A life is time, they teach us growing up

 The seconds ticking killed us all A million years before the fall

 You ride the waves and don't ask where they go

You swim like lions through the crest And bathe yourself on zebra flesh

Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do

 I've been downhearted baby, I've been downhearted baby,

 Ever since the day we met, Ever since the day we met