Elliott Murphy Put It Down lyrics

Put It Down by Elliott Murphy

I.
You can lie like a television baby flying innocent like 
a blue eyed dove
You can stand by a foutain with your landlord pitching 
coins but it ain't gonna bring you luck
Cause I will know where you are and why and how and 
whatever that behavior well it really sucks
But the time we were young - was the time when my 
passion was on the run
And the time we were young - oh well now our love seems 
to be all eaten up 
Put it down

II.
The elite troopers of the harmonica commandos - they 
were marching to the John Sousa band
And I knew we was somewhere to the west of never never 
never never never never neverland
I saw no snow on the mountains but I knew the iceman he 
was coming anyway
But that's another story for a rainy day
That's another set of rules for another game I'm gonna 
play
Put it down

III.
Well I was resting and I picked up a magazine in the 
restroom and I opened it to the page
it was opened to before
There was a pcture of a crying Spanish painter he was 
standing in a barroom full of whores
But his model she was nowhere to be seen cause she died 
just a year before drinking absinthe
on the quai with an African named Louis Amour
drinking absinthe on the quai D'Orsay with an African 
named Louis Amour - that's right

IV.
So I rode into the galleria and I went to my favorite 
toy-shop
And I loaded up my BB gun so when I saw that lamppost I 
could give it a good shot
You know I missed by a mile or three -
Although the truth was I wouldn't have broken it if I 
could
The truth was my heart was already cracked although no 
one could see
Yeah the truth was my bulb was burned out and there was 
absolutely no life,
no light left inside me Hmmmmm.

V.
So I went down by the frontier watching the troops in 
black silk skate past 
I was sipping ginger ale
and a near beer at the Martinez and knew these good 
times couldn't last 
There was some kinda demonstration going on down o the 
Midem market place of sounds 
Ah but man I was so out of it I didn't know if it was 
laughter 
or if somebody was about to drown 
Yeah I was so completely out of it and my consciousness 
had just left town

VI.
So once again I sipped across the old border when the 
guards were looking the other way 
At a parade of retired revolutionaries - We all raised 
our hands and said hip hip hooray 
And than came the dirty general and his staft - And man 
they were as infected as can be 
When they tried to shake my hand - I said please don't 
touch me 
So they all put their dress gloves on and said now