Bashing and Banging
Copyright © 2015 by Bill Crozier
The Guy
The guy in the red jersey passes me soaring
As I pass the older guy with the touring handlebars
I love the great sweep of the highway
As I glide by the pond on a Friday afternoon
(chorus)
My eye on the water
My eye on the fourth of July
My eye on the fire
My eye on the earth and the sky, yeah
I spent the evening with Cassiopeia
I love the line from alpha to delta
Y’ feel me?
(chorus)
I’m on a mountainside, I am a stone
I found myself laughing when I left my phone at my sister’s house
(instrumental, repeat chorus, repeat first verse)
Anything
I made the last two connections
I gave a fast explanation
The wind is blowing in every direction
I gave a fast explanation
I don’t wanna, I can’t have a favorite anything
Some guy on the radio hoedown
Why does he think that I want a showdown?
Alberta calls me as the cross goes down
Why does she think that I want a showdown?
I don’t wanna, I can’t have a favorite anything
I was cool till she tried to hang me
I pull up the wisteria angry
Jasmine and coffee and berries like candy
I pull up the wisteria angry
I don’t wanna, I can’t have a favorite anything
I like blue like the sky
Blue like the sea
The tail of my tale is a stone’s throw
There’s no number one ‘cause I said so!
I can’t tell you why ‘cause I don’t know
There’s no number one ‘cause I said so!
I don’t wanna, I can’t have a favorite anything
South Amboy
I went north to South Amboy, oh boy
When I got out I had a thousand toys
Shiny bits of steel
I’d tell you how I feel
If I were Nikolayevich Tolstoy
I went south to North Delran, oh man
I long to understand
Trying not to hide
Trying to decide
How I might design my master plan
I went east to West Virginny
Slept in a humble abode
Burnin’ rice to Mount Kittatinny
Pull over to the side of the road
I went west to East Jabip oh shit
That’s right I said I had enough of it
I said it all before
In 1984
And then again in 1996
(repeat chorus, repeat first verse)
Parlor
There’s a mud room where I take off all my shoes
Here’s a whisk broom
I don’t pay no union dues
Don’t have a parlor
But I have a parlor guitar
Knocked down the arbor
Between two mountains in the yard
It’s not hard to climb that far
It was April when the wind blew down the wall
“Test the faithful, ” I said as it began to fall
It says “Crozier” on the permit from the town
I was a builder before they wrote it down
I look around every time I hear the sound
I pulled the wires
I pulled the pipes
I smelled the fire
In the night
I pulled the wires
I pulled the pipes
I built it entire
I have the right
I know the way up the stairwell in the attic
A glass of IPA in my garret
There’s no sky light but there’s a window to the west
I have no pilot light
Just a heart beating in my chest
Oh yes, that’s right, correct
There’s no sky light but there’s a window to the west
I have no pilot light
Just a heart beating in my chest
Oh yes, that’s right, correct
Here’s My Dime
Do my time gonna see the world, sorry I can’t stay
Here’s my dime for a pretty girl on this special day
Where you goin’ you pretty bird?
Right before my eye
If I dream up every word
I would never cry
(chorus)
You’re like a famous statue
I will always stare at you
You’re in every song I sing
I’ve been given everything
And so they took a chance
On the day they set me free
I know that you can dance
But you can’t dance with me
Where you goin’ you pretty bird?
Right before my eye
If I dream up every word
I would never cry
(repeat chorus, repeat first verse)
Robert
I don’t eat frogs, but I speak French
La croix du sud is the Southern Cross
I’m not a dog, but I pee on the fence
To let the animals know who’s boss
I dig the earth, I pull out stones
I know where the water runs
I write a verse, I tickle the bones
I know why the toaster hums
(chorus)
I’m not a fly, I’m not an ant
I’m not a busy bee
Robert had the right idea, the right idea for me
Not just for eggs I feed the birds
I must prepare for zombie time
It goes like this or so I’ve heard
When I’m not sure I go online
(repeat chorus, synthesizer instrumental, repeat chorus, repeat first verse)
September Song
There are no songs for September
Who wants to jump and shout?
It’s not hard to remember
It’s not hard to figure out
Summer’s almost over
Shoot one more game of pool
No more running through the clover
I gotta go to school
I want more vacation
But I can’t trust the sky
I wait for compensation
So I’m not gonna cry
I’m up at five for coffee black
Can’t wait for it to cool
Breakfast over tarmac
I gotta go to school
(repeat first verse)
I gotta go to school (repeat)
Happy Birthday
Turn through the pine trees
Pine for the blue sea
Fly straight then bank left in slow-mo
Sing happy birthday
Have a cowboy Friday
And a warm Pilsner and I’m back in Togo
I see a little sunny in my next plan
I’ll never give you money with my left hand
Misty mountain roadway
Misty eyes in the marché
I dream of mangoes, coffee and coco
I see a little sunny in my next plan
I’ll never give you money with my left hand
Sing happy birthday
Have a cowboy Friday
And a warm pilsner and I’m back in Togo
Sign with the moon shine
Shine when the tune rhymes
Bashing and banging since one year ago-go
I see a little sunny in my next plan
I’ll never give you money with my left hand (repeat)
Exercise
If you don’t meet your ambition
Change your method of addition
Or change your definition of velocity
Hold your speed around the bender
Never stop, never surrender
That’s not how I remember
My philosophy, but
If you don’t get your blood a flowing (chorus)
Go see your pastor
If you don’t like how fast you’re going
Go a little faster
Do the rounds I’ll take Victori-(a), I do Clark but not like Chloe
Would – I know which way I go, I know what I like
(Instrumental) (repeat chorus)
By the bridge is a man with a sandwich
Down by the sand and trees
I rode by the man with the sandwich
I bet it was ham with cheese
Do the rounds I’ll take Victori-(a), I do Clark but not like Chloe
Would – I know which way I go, I know what I like
Skiing, skating, running, rowing, swimming on the river flowing
I prefer the way I’m going, riding on my bike
I prefer the way I’m going, riding on my bike, yeah