Darkling Down-Walter Becker

[ti:Darkling Down] [ar:Walter Becker] [al:Circus Monkey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darkling Down - Walter Becker [00:24.41]Well along in the twenty first hour [00:26.73] [00:27.37]When the whole damn grid goes down [00:29.73] [00:30.36]This is how a party gets started [00:32.99]In for a penny in for a pound [00:36.22] [00:42.22]All at once the whole joint goes quiet [00:45.28]And all the wavy lines go straight [00:47.69] [00:48.33]One fool among fools is wondering [00:51.28]What happens if I die too late [00:53.82] [00:54.33]Get back with your dime store nihilism [00:57.37]Big daddy's on a glory run [01:00.24]Gettin' down on the cellular level [01:03.22]Just in case I got to call someone [01:05.18]Darkling down on a darkling plain [01:10.78]In the dim dank night of the pissin' down rain [01:16.95]Darkling down on the balls of his ass [01:22.50]While he prays and waits for the storm to pass [01:29.29] [01:35.73]Lemme show you where the good thing happens [01:39.13]It's a barbershop in inglewood [01:41.48] [01:41.99]Too bad we won't get past the bouncer [01:45.00]Sadly I've been banned for good [01:47.59] [01:53.95]Well there's a coffee shop right round the corner [01:56.98]The proprietor knows my name [01:59.89]Cup of joe and a vicks inhaler [02:02.87]Now you're ready for the big boy game [02:05.24] [02:05.85]Steady son come seven come eleven [02:08.88]If either one of us can count that high [02:11.89]Muscatel if the deal gets dicey [02:14.91]Milk and honey in the by and by [02:17.56]Darkling down it's a damn disgrace [02:22.34]Going round and round in a very small place [02:28.69]Darkling down with a hole in his soul [02:34.10]That he can't explain and he can't control [02:41.23] [03:17.15]For the fun or for the money [03:20.14]For the f**k of it or just because [03:23.11]Listen friend this is no damn picnic [03:26.06]But let's imagine for a minute that it was [03:29.01]Who will feast on this buzzard's banquet [03:31.94]Who will render my heroic bust [03:34.26] [03:34.89]Who will choke on my lachrymose musings [03:37.99]Who will eat my zero dust [03:40.88]Who will wear this puke streaked tunic [03:43.88]Who shall gorge on this cup of spleen [03:46.78]Who will sing about the good bad and ugly [03:49.83]And all and everything in between [03:51.86]Darkling down this is god's good man [03:57.16]On his hands and knees livin' god's good plan [04:03.52]Darkling down and we don't know still [04:08.88]When he'll come around if he ever will [04:14.63] [04:15.24]Darkling down on a zero g dive [04:20.77]And we just can't say will the fool survive [04:27.04]Darkling down in a seven g turn [04:32.72]Glowing like a coal in the after burn