you can't do me

you can't do me

you can't do me

you can't do me the way you did before?

you can't do me

you can't do me

you can't do me the way you did before?

'cause when you do

and when you do

'cause when you do

you know i get so blue!

when you do

and when you do

'cause when you do

you know i get so blue and i go

down like a deep sea diver

out like a coltrane tenor-man

lost like a chinese war baby? gone

gone

gone!

blewed like a mississippi sharecropper

screwed like a high-school cheerleader

tattooed like a popeyed sailorman? gone

gone

gone!

i should have been

i should have been

i should have been a pair of ragged claws. i should have been

i should have been

i should have been a pair of ragged claws. and for a while

for just a while

for a good long while you'd see me smile

smile

smile

i'd crawl the seas on my bony knees

no apologies for my brave new style. i wouldn't go

bust like an internet millionaire

boom like a lebanese belly-dancer

bang like a new year's firecracker? gone

gone

gone! i wouldn't get

bent like a rattan rockin' chair

blanked like a last place also ran

burned like an arkansas griddlecake? gone

gone

gone!

i should have been

i should have been

i should have been a pair of ragged claws. and if i was

if i was

if i was then i'd complain no more. and for a while

for just a while

for a good long while you'd see me smile

smile

smile. i'd crawl the seas

on my bony knees

no apologies for my brave new style. i wouldn't get?

wrecked like a rebel on a racetrack

jacked like a '51 cadillac

macked like a bunny in a mansion? gone

gone

gone!

spitooned like an alabama 'backy wad

harpooned in a melville sailor yard

cartooned like a charlie brown christmas card? gone

gone

gone!

schooled like a milk money bully whip

sued like a teenage downloader

unglued like a bull in a china shop? gone

gone

gone!

cranked like a speed freak high-roller

yanked like a little league ball swatter

spanked like a fly on a bar counter? gone

gone

gone!

duked like a pistol whipped card swapper

rebuked like a bible belt border crosser

juked like a payola chart topper? gone

gone

gone!