Doc Pomus

Album: Lonely Avenue (2010)
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  • Man in a wheelchair
    Lobby of the forest
    With freighters, hustlers, hard up millionaires

    Mobsters, cops,
    Whores, pimps, and Marxists
    All human life is there
    In the forest all you need is eyes and ears

    Man in a wheelchair listens to the chatter
    Writes down all the insane crap he hears.

    He can't move around but it doesn't really matter
    In the farthest stall you needed his eyes and ears

    And out they pour the hits and the misses
    Turn me loose, lonely avenue
    And down in Nashville, Elvis sings "Suspicion"
    Pomus, Shuman, 1962

    And he could never be one of those happy cripples
    The kind that smile and tell you life's okay.

    He was mad as hell.
    Frightened and bitter,
    He found a way to make his feelings pay.

    Back at the forest in the steakhouse of a lobby
    A diner gets 3 bullets in the head.

    Doc looks down eating his linguine
    Thinking up a lyric for the dead.

    And out they pour the hits and the misses
    Turn me loose, lonely avenue
    And down in Nashville, Elvis sings "Suspicion"
    Pomus, Shuman, 1962
    1962

    Friendly Jack Benny, crazy Phil Spector
    ? and Eydie Gorme
    Damon Runyon Junior and the ? orchestra
    All super human life is there
    In the forest all you need is eyes and ears

    And he could never be one of those happy cripples
    The kind that smile and tell you life's okay
    He was mad as hell, frightened and bitter.
    He found a way to make his isolation pay.

    And out they pour the hits and the misses
    Turn me loose, lonely avenue
    And down in Nashville, Elvis sings "Suspicion"
    Pomus, Shuman, 1962

    And out they pour the hits and the misses
    Turn me loose, lonely avenue
    And down in Nashville, Elvis sings "Suspicion"
    Pomus, Shuman, 1962 Writer/s: BEN FOLDS, BENJAMIN SCOTT FOLDS, NICHOLAS PETER JOHN HORNBY, NICK HORNBY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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