4th Time Around   





When she said 

 Don't waste your words, they're just lies  

I cried she was deaf 

And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes 

Then said,  What else you got left  

It was then that I got up to leave 

But she said,  Don't forget 

Everybody must give something back 

For something they get . 

 

I stood there and hummel 

I tapped on her drum and asked her how come 

And she buttoned her boot 

And straightened her suit 

Then she said,  Don't get cute  

So I forced my hands in my pockets 

And felt with my thumbs 

And gallantly handed her 

My very last piece of gum. 

 

She threw me outside 

I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked 

And after finding I'd 

Forgotten my shirt 

I went back and knocked  

I waited in the hallway, she went to get it  

And I tried to make sense 

Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair 

That leaned up against ... 

 

Her Jamaican rum 

And when she did come, I asked her for some 

She said,  No dear  

I said,  Your words aren't clear 

You'd better spit out your gum  

She screamed till her face got so red 

Then she fell on the floor 

And I covered her up and then 

Thought I'd go look through her drawer. 

And when I was through 

I filled up my shoe 

And brought it to you 

And you, you took me in 

You loved me then 

You didn't waste time 

And I, I never took much 

I never asked for your crutch 

Now dont ask for mine.