VERSE 1:
a man walks down the street…
he says “why am i soft in the middle now?”
“why am i soft in the middle?”
“the rest of my life is so hard…”
“i need a ‘photo opportunity’…”
“i want a shot at ‘redemption’…”
“don’t want to end up a ‘cartoon’…”
“in a ‘cartoon graveyard’…”
“bonedigger”…”bonedigger”…
“dogs in the moonlight”…
far away my well-lit door…
mister ‘beerbelly’…’beerbelly’…
get these ‘mutts’ away from me!
you know i don’t find this stuff amusing anymore…
REFRAIN 1:
if you’ll be my ‘bodyguard’…
i can be your ‘long-lost pal’…
i can call you ‘betty’…
and ‘betty when you call me’…
“you can call me ‘al’…”
VERSE 2:
a man walks down the street…
he says “why am i short of attention?”
“got a short little span of attention…”
“and woa my nights are so long…”
“where’s my ‘wife’ and ‘family’?”
“what if i die here?”
“who’ll be my ‘role-model’?”
“now that my ‘role-model’ is”
“gone…gone…”
he ducked back down the alley
with some roly-poly little bat-faced girl…
all along along…
there were ‘incidents’ and ‘accidents’…
there were ‘hints’ and ‘allegations’…
REFRAIN 2:
if you’ll be my ‘bodyguard’…
i can be your ‘long-lost pal’…
I can call you ‘betty’
and ‘betty when you call me’
“you can call me ‘al’…”
(“you can call me ‘al’…”)
VERSE 3:
a man walks down the street…
It’s a ‘street’ in a ‘strange world’…
maybe it’s the “third world”…
maybe it’s his first time around…
he doesn’t speak the ‘language’…
he holds no ‘currency’…
he is a ‘foreign man’…
he is ‘surrounded’ by the ‘sound’…
(the ‘sound’…)
‘cattle’ in the ‘marketplace’…
‘scatterlings’ and ‘orphanages’…
he looks around…around…
he sees ‘angels’ in the ‘architecture’…
spinning in infinity
he says ‘qmen!’ and ‘hallelujah!’
REFRAIN 3:
if you’ll be my ‘bodyguard’…
i can be your ‘long-lost pal’…
i can call you ‘betty’…
and ‘betty’ when you call me…
you can call me ‘al’…
(you can call me ‘al’…)
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