let me be
what a way for one to realize
got away, so bored now, i seem
how he is so happy feeling sad
everly depressed
go die you
think i will enjoy the view-oy the view-oy the view
everything is standing still-ill-ill

lay still, steven, and i’ll tell you a bedtime story.
i’ll tell you a bedtime story that’s not for all
children. it’s a very special story, that only special
children will understand. it’s a half-awake story, and
it will be better if you close your eyes. it’s a
story that takes place in a dream, like other
nightmares you have known. it’s a dream that alice has
dreamed. you can dream along with him. you can follow
alice down the staircase, deep, down the stairs to the
pit where he doesn’t want to go, but he has to.

if you go to sleep now, steven, you can go down the
long and endless stairway and sing sweet songs to alice
and free him. and if you can’t get to sleep, steven,
and in the middle of the night you get out of bed, when
everything is quiet and the trees are still and the
birds are hiding from the dark, you can lie down on
your bedroom floor and press your ear tightly to the
boards. if you listen very carefully you can hear
alice searching for a way out, forever chasing
rainbows.

sleep tight, steven. and have a good night.

if you were lucy
i’d be your ricky
when you were juicy
i’d get real sticky
and when you’re magic
it makes me tricky, too

yeah, i’m a sony
you’re panasonic
i’m heavy metal
you’re philharmonic
if you get earaches
i’d turn my volume down
a notch or two for you

’cause i will do anything for you
anything you want me to
i’m so adaptable to you
was untrappable ’til you

i will do for you
anything for you
adaptable to you
adaptable to you

if you do that fold out
i’ll scream and holler
but when you hold out
i’ll spend three dollars
one way or other, babe
i’ll spend the night with you
that’s true

now, you ain’t no hepburn
and i ain’t no fonda
but if you were drownin’
in golden ponda
mouth to mouth
i’d resuscitate with you

because i’m so adaptable to you
anything you want me to
i’m so adaptable to you
was untrappable ’til you

i will do for you
anything for you
adaptable to you
adaptable to you

adaptable to you
so plug me into you

say you’re vampira
and needed plasma
and i was dying
from chronic asthma
i’d leave my death bed
to draw some blood for you
just for you

because i will do anything for you
anything you want me to
and i will do anything for you
anything you want me to
yes, i’m so adaptable to you
leave a craps table for you
on a winning streak

i will do for you
anything for you
adaptable to you
adaptable to you

adam was as happy as a man can be
til he started messin with an old apple tree

ain’t that just like a woman
ain’t that just like a woman
ain’t that just like a woman she’ll do it every time

you can buy a woman clothes give her money on the side
no matter what you do she ain’t never satisfied

ain’t that just like a woman
ain’t that just like a woman
ain’t that just like a woman she’ll do it every time

rain is falling
down my cheek
searching for the sea
tomorrow, like the rain
i’ll be back home again

i watch
the bus
as it pulls out of view
someday like that bus
i will be leavin too

but you know
it breaks my heart
to leave you
camelback
my high school

and now
alone
cryin in my beer
’cause old friends said
goodbye, i guess i’ll be leavin too

but you know
it breaks my heart
to leave you
cortez
i’ll miss you

yes i will
yes i will
you know i will

yes i will
yes i will
you know i will

well so long
everybody
i hope that i would see you again
goodbye
everybody
i finally grew up
they finally let me out of school

hey, remember the time - ‘member the time
we took that snake
and put down little betsy’s dresss?
now i don’t think miss axelrod
was much impressed
no i don’t think miss axelrod
was much impressed
well i don’t think miss axelrod
was much impressed

oh, goodbye
everybody
i hope that i would see you again
so long
everybody
how do you like that
they finally let me out of school
goodbye
ah, i wanna get out of here
they let me out of school
how ’bout that, uh?
goodbye
hey, goodbye, guys
maybe i’ll see -
maybe i’ll see you around some time, uh?
‘ey, don’t make a stranger of yourself, uh?
remember the coop, uh?
may -
i ho -
i hope - you don’t forget me or nothin
goodbye