Self Pity

(album: #10 - 1973)

Sure like to boogie after death comes calling
Sure like rocking when I'm far away
"Ooh Pooh Pah Doo" is letting Jesse watch the heavens
Paint another picture while you're turning grey

Everything I knew about was always American
Skip a stone lightly and you'll be okay
Never really get my rocking feet to moving
Till somebody's singing "Not Fade Away"

Got mystery train fever, and I'm a believer
And go down Moses, and I'll send you red roses
Despair, and death at an early age

You sang about trucking and the band had it moving
If you were a lizard then you might be gone
A little self-indulgence never moved a mountain
Don't need the fiddler yelling "Yeah, right on!"

You're my angel from a wet salvation
You can buy and sell me so you shine me on
Your mama worked hard and the acid made you think about it
Why, mother water, are the days all gone

Got mystery train fever, and I'm a believer
And go down Moses, and I'll send you red roses
Despair, and death at an early age