Fat Old Man

You've moved off to Seattle

You go down yo the bar every day

This morning you woke up in the park

Wearing only a tiny straw hat

You've got a mad dog with a bad leg

And a comb full of rotten teeth

But the days get longer you don't get no younger

And nobody's calling for you

Keep moving on

You're chewing aspirin like M&Ms

Anything to dull the pain

But the doctor says it's nothing that a little courage wouldn't fix.

So they put you up on morphine and they strap you to the bed

Saying "Darling, it's just a bad dream, it'll be over soon"

Keeps moving on

Oh nobody

Nobody feels like fighting

You've unplugged all the phone lines

And changed the locks on the doors

You've been wearing suits and collared shirts

And you've changed your name to Carlos

You take up with a lady

The kind that wears perfume

And she likes the sound of your name

When it's following after hers

Keep moving on

Then she tells you there's a child

And he's three months along

She's been dying to tell you

'Cause she thinks he'll have your nose

You call her up the next day

It was St. valentine's

And you wanted to know about the hometown

And see if it was standing

And it keeps moving on

'Cause nobody

Nobody feels like fighting

The LeCalire boy died in a fire

The town gathered by the harbor's edge

And sure enough when the flames died down the boat almost sunk

The next day the sea was quiet

The tide came in, then moved out

That's just one way of saying

Nothing changes when you're gone

It keeps moving on