Westbound Bart (Live)

Oh the Westbound Bart dove underwater and

My ears popped and your eyes watered

And the mascara ran down your face

And you looked at me from three rows away

As if to say, please stop staring at me

And so I did

And you got off at 16th and Mission

And I did too

I didn't want it to seem like I was following you

It was just the same stop that I was getting off too

I swear

And you walked on down the street

And I walked behind

But you kept on making the same turns

That I was gonna make

Til finally you stepped in

To the same bar that I was going to

And it was Tuesday night Karaoke

And I sang Lay, Lady, Lay

With the funny voice and all

And you sang Bohemian Rhapsody

And everybody sang along

Especially on that part

That says I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

And when you were done

And the crowd around you dispersed

I went up to tell you

Just what a great job you had done

You said I wonder if when Freddie Mercury

Wrote bohemian rhapsody

If he knew it was going to be

The ultimate song for Karaoke

And I said, What about American Pie?

And you said

Fuck American Pie

Our generation cannot identify with

Drove my Chevy to levee

It ain't nothin' when compared to

I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

You said well that was a great version of Lay, Lady, Lay

With the funny voice and all

Back from Bob Dylan's Nashville skyline days if I do recall

I said yea

I don't normally do this karaoke thing

But if I do I either sing that song

Or everybody must get stoned

Rainy day women number 12 and 35

(Technically that's what that songs called

I don't know if you knew)

And you said yeah what's with that song title

What's with the twelve and thirty-five

I said well twelve times thirty-five

Is four hundred and twenty

And you know what they say about four twenty

But maybe that's just the math major in me talkin'

I don't know what it means

It just does

But girl you know

I used to roam around

Play my own guitar

And sing my own songs

But it's been a while since I've been on the road

You see I lost my muse

And I have not written a song

In about a year or so

I'm taking a little break

My friends call it retirement I don't know

But just today

The most amazing thing happened

I saw something beautiful

And I felt a spark

Of a brand new song

That I have not felt in so long

And you said sing it to me

I said it's not ready to sing

Because all I have is the very first line

You said if you don't sing me that first line now

There will never be a second line

Give me what you got boy or else go home

I said okay

Here goes

Oh the Westbound Bart dove underwater and

My ears popped and your eyes watered

And the mascara ran down your face