William Shatner's Dog-Stephen Fretwell

[ti:William Shatner's Dog] [ar:Stephen Fretwell] [al:Man On The Roof] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]William Shatner's Dog - Stephen Fretwell [00:29.37]I walk by the water and [00:31.49]Head for your house [00:32.87] [00:34.11]Though I know that you'll be out [00:36.87] [00:38.24]In some dirty city bar [00:41.38] [00:46.43]I stand on your street [00:48.12]And I stare at your room [00:49.87] [00:51.73]And the shadows play and move [00:54.36] [00:55.60]And your brother comes out with a bat [00:59.10] [01:01.54]Saying that [01:04.28] [01:06.15]You might be with your sister in Paris [01:10.21] [01:11.71]On the Rue Turnau [01:12.96] [01:14.26]Wearing Marline Dietrich glasses [01:18.51] [01:20.01]Where we made that bet [01:21.44] [01:23.19]That bet I knew you'd win for sure [01:28.01] [01:30.50]When you where sick on the floor [01:32.50] [01:37.00]The calico's ripped [01:38.75]Beneath the patch [01:40.17] [01:41.62]It's an itch I can never scratch [01:44.31] [01:45.80]Now it's so far gone in the past [01:48.75] [01:53.50]The fines I'm [01:54.75]Having trouble to contest [01:56.61] [01:58.55]With the library book you kept [02:00.92] [02:02.29]The one that sent your head so far west [02:07.67] [02:09.90]Far far away [02:11.17] [02:12.60]In those continental cities [02:16.85] [02:18.22]Where they get in a race [02:19.85] [02:21.59]To see who can build the tallest buildings [02:25.39] [02:26.52]Where you went for some space [02:28.27] [02:29.33]And wound up [02:30.89] [02:31.70]With a slightly redder face [02:34.07] [02:37.07]And a pain in your gut [02:39.06] [02:45.61]I turn on the TV [02:47.37]And I see there your face [02:49.30] [02:50.80]And in it is not one trace [02:53.23] [02:54.42]Of that old brown bowl of lace [02:57.86] [03:02.35]And that bowl of lace [03:03.92] [03:05.35]Is sat beside the gas bar fire [03:09.04] [03:10.41]Where you probably laid [03:11.71] [03:13.15]Eating ice cream chocolate lollies [03:17.08] [03:18.64]That your mother brought home [03:20.08] [03:21.75]From the freezer store [03:23.88] [03:25.13]On the Old Kent Road [03:27.13] [03:29.31]She too had enough [03:30.81] [03:34.80]And that look on your face [03:36.74] [03:37.98]That you'd throw across the dinner table [03:41.85] [03:43.54]In the middle of grace [03:45.10] [03:46.66]Your fathers eyes closed shut tight [03:50.59] [03:51.77]And it happend like that [03:53.34] [03:54.89]Every damn night [03:57.45] [03:58.27]That I had to come [03:59.76] [04:02.89]To your house [04:04.13] [04:08.13]Well tell Charles O'Keefe [04:10.18] [04:11.12]That I don't want to go to Paris [04:15.17] [04:16.81]It's sunnier here [04:18.49] [04:19.23]And I'm happy in this loveless marriage [04:23.98] [04:25.09]With the girl from the Pru [04:26.72] [04:28.15]And your father and your sister [04:30.65] [04:31.53]And your mother too [04:32.77] [04:35.02]And not forgetting you