Fruit Cocktail Cannery Blues-Stewart Eastham

[ti:Fruit Cocktail Cannery Blues] [ar:Stewart Eastham] [al:Dancers in the Mansion] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fruit Cocktail Cannery Blues - Stewart Eastham [00:05.62]Written by：Stewart Eastham/Long Bar Music [00:11.24]I work all day in this cannery job [00:15.71] [00:16.56]Each can that goes by is like a soul that's been robbed [00:21.25] [00:21.98]I thought one day I'd grow up to be a man [00:26.33] [00:27.42]But here I stand with my life ruled by a can [00:31.54] [00:34.07]Cannery set me free [00:37.03] [00:39.36]I've got fruit cocktail in my dreams [00:42.45] [00:44.73]Cannery set me free [00:47.67] [00:49.79]I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to be [00:53.11] [00:55.06]There's a girl over on pear watch and some folks call her may [00:59.70] [01:00.32]I said may maybe you and I could go out someday [01:04.57] [01:06.14]May said may I tell you something just as a friend [01:10.27] [01:11.06]I said may you may say what you like she said [01:14.15]I think I'm a lesbian [01:15.65] [01:18.12]Me and may got to hanging out and drinking every night [01:22.32] [01:23.31]Shuffleboard games at the keg room up until closing time [01:27.55] [01:28.75]Til one night 2am [01:30.53]May said she was moving down to the east bay [01:33.67]Said she'd had enough of this rotten place and the meanness of its ways [01:38.22] [01:40.80]Cannery set me free [01:43.75] [01:46.10]I've got fruit cocktail in my dreams [01:49.17] [01:51.44]Cannery set me free [01:54.43] [01:56.53]I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to be [02:00.06] [02:02.40]I was missing may when big Ricky said [02:05.19]Let's have some fun [02:06.20] [02:07.05]He said I got my [02:08.09]Favorite sweatpants on for the gentlemens club [02:11.71] [02:13.09]After second shift we hit that joint on 99 [02:16.68] [02:18.08]Hot legs hot wings flashed the red and blue neon sign [02:22.31] [02:24.32]Met a rockabilly dancer and spilled my secrets at twenty dollars a song [02:28.84] [02:30.06]But even picking zeppelin tunes my money didn't hold out long [02:34.34] [02:35.60]She said her real name was Sara and I swear I fell in love [02:39.59] [02:40.35]But when I went back the very next night [02:43.06]She didn't know who I was [02:44.89] [02:47.46]Cannery set me free [02:50.37] [02:52.69]I've got fruit cocktail in my dreams [02:55.80] [02:58.12]Cannery set me free [03:01.20] [03:03.08]I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to be [03:06.33] [03:08.76]Drunk one night I called up may and asked if I could crash [03:13.13] [03:13.92]With her and her old lady in Oakland until I got some cash [03:18.26] [03:19.32]She said boss right now it's a little crowded up in here [03:23.37] [03:24.65]But how's about you give me a ring after labor day [03:28.45]Next year [03:29.09] [03:31.11]Now I'm stuck here up on can watch [03:33.70]The worst job I've ever had [03:35.53] [03:36.36]I just tripped and fell and hit [03:38.42]My head and I'm bleeding pretty bad [03:40.78] [03:42.03]I close my eyes pretend I'm on a stage in Nashville Tennessee [03:46.99]Singing songs about how much I hate this goddamn cannery [03:51.52] [03:54.09]Cannery set me free [03:57.10] [03:59.13]Just another empty can floating by [04:02.35] [04:04.78]Cannery set me free [04:07.62] [04:09.76]I'm pretty sure this ain't where I'm supposed to die