This is a song about a guy laying in bed one night staring at the ceiling. Light from the
street lamp was sliced by the Venetian blinds into bars appearing across the top of the ceiling. The
man lay there staring and grabbing hold of the bars of his metaphorical prison and listened to
the men and the women shout at each other out in the streets, shouting at each other every Saturday
night. Thought to himself, I want some of that. It's not a right song in a lot of ways that way.
Okay, well, are there any questions so far?
Ad-lib. Stretch.
Oh, ad-lib, huh? All right. I will ad-lib a poem about drinking.
All these things are made to take away. Where my heart resides, they've laid to waste.
Now they fill the time with hollow trash. I hear a ticking bomb. I'm glad you asked.
I'm alive. Let's get drunk and drive.
Smoking cigarette and drinking rye. I was feeling human with a splattered light.
I was born heading into the rain. I'm here.
I'm alive. Let's get drunk and drive.
This is something called Fish and Blues. It's also like that.
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I went up on a hill by twelve o'clock
Stared at the water till a quarter past three
Caught me a hook in the hardware store
Found a pole in the kitchen floor
I hear you've been fishing all of your life
I'm a-goin' fishing too
That's your life, your sweet life
I'm gonna catch more fish than you
And if fish bites, you get good bait
There's a little something in the lightning we lay
And if fish is gonna bite, you get good bait
I'm a-goin' fishing, yeah, I'm a-goin' fishing
I'm a-goin' fishing too
I looked in the morning by four o'clock
Saw a catfish just swimming round
Got so mad I don't know what to do
I'm gonna give that catfish to you
I hear you've been fishing all of your life
I'm a-goin' fishing too
That's your life, your sweet life
That's your life, your earthly wife
Catch more fish than you
And if fish is caught, you get good bait
That's a little tip I'd like to relay
Any time you get a fish and get some good amazing
I'm a-goin' fishing
Yeah, I'm a-goin' fishing
Yeah, I'm a-goin' fishing too
Wish you a good fishing and let's catch new fish
On-the-Way
The end
I'm a politician, I'm a politician, I'm a politician, I'm a politician
I hear pretty good at this stuff
This fishing thing
I'm a politician, I'm a politician, I'm a politician
I hear pretty good at this stuff
This fishing thing