4th Time Around

When she said, "Don't waste your words, they're just lies"

I cried she was deaf

As she worked on my face then breaking my eyes

Then said, "What else you got left?"

It was then that I got up to leave

But she said, "Don't forget that everybody

Must give something back for something they get"

I stood there and hummed

I tapped on her drum and when she did come

She said, no dear  >>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And she buttoned her boot

And said straighten my flute

And she said, "Don't get cute"

So I pushed my hands in my pockets

And felt with my thumb

And gallantly handed her

My very last piece of gum

She threw me outside

I stood in the dirt where everyone walked

And after finding out I'd forgotten my shirt

I went back and knocked

I waited in the hallway

She went to get it and I tried to make sense

Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair

And leaned up against

Her Jamaican rum

And when she did come

I asked her for some

And she said, "No, deal"

I said, "Your words are not clear

You'd better spit out your gum"

She screamed 'til her face got so red

Then she fell on the floor

And I covered her up and then

Thought I'd go look through her drawer

And when I was through

I filled up my shoe

And I brought it to you

And you, you took me in

You loved me then

But you never wasted time

And I, I never took much

I didn't as for your crutch

So please don't ask for mine