You Can Call Me Al (feat. Ruby Prophet)

A man walks down the street, he says

Why am I soft in the middle now?

Why am I soft in the middle

The rest of my life is so hard

I need a photo opportunity

I want a shot at redemption

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard

Bone digger, bone digger

Dogs in the moonlight

Far away, my well-lit door

Mister beer belly, beer belly

Get these mutts away from me

You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me

You can call me Al

A man walks down the street, he says

Why am I short of attention?

Got a short little span of attention

And oh, my nights are so long

Where is my wife and family?

What if I die here?

Who'll be my role model?

Now that my role model is gone, gone

He ducked back down the alley

With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl

All along, along there were incidents and accidents

There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me

You can call me Al

A man walks down a street

It's a street in a strange world

Maybe it's the Third World

Maybe it's his first time around

Doesn't speak the language

He holds no currency

He's a foreign man

He is surrounded by the sound

The sound

Cattle in the marketplace

Scatterlings and orphanages

He looks around, around, he sees angels in the architecture

Spinning into infinity

He says amen and hallelujah

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me

You can call me Al