Me and Stupid

Me and Stupid

At the cottage

Casting out for giant trout

Me and Stupid

Threw back sunfish

Digging worms and lighting punks

Pretending we weren't real

Me and Stupid

At the coalis

Picking scabs and playing tag

Me and Stupid

Skookum stupid


We got wailed on ginger ale


As flat as the Ferguson girl

Me and Stupid

He was different


I told lies about my band



He said would I show him chords


So I said "Yes," and I showed him


"The House of the Rising Sun",


and some original new wave rock!


He was my best friend...

Me and Stupid

At the ball yard


Throwing rocks to Rolling Stones


He was Catfish Hunter


I was Johnny Bench,

and he would clench


That ball like the whole of the world

Then on a night in the North Ontario summertime


I heard a sound from the lake


Like the rage of a pike in the shallow reeds

Something is about to happen. Leaves are still.


Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky...

I jumped down from the bunk where I slept in the room with the fake-look wood
 and the painting of God. 
I could see his head bob there in the surf; 
I could see his footprints fresh in the turf
. So I screamed and I yelled, like the time that I first heard Aerosmith... 
Steve Tyler sang "Dream On," but I was stiff with fear
, seeing him drown in the cold lake. 
So I screamed, and I yelled. 
But all I heard was the sound of my hot... air.

Me and Stupid

His mind was fucked up


But aren't we all in our own way?


They took Stupid to the Dumb House/(hospital)


And that was all I saw of him


That summer I heard the Ramones

They played original new wave rock!


Pike!

Trout!

Minnows!

Smelt!