Court And Spark

My analyst told me
That i was right out of my head
The way he described it
He said i'd be better dead than alive
I didn't listen to his jive
I knew all along
That he was all wrong
And i knew that he thought
I was crazy but i'm not
Oh no

My analyst told me
That i was right out of my head
He said i'd need treatment
But i'm not that easily led
He said i was the type
That was most inclined
When out of his sight
To be out of my mind
And he thought i was nuts
No more ifs or ands or buts

They say as a child
I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But i knew what was happening
I knew i was a genius...
What's so strange when you know
That you're a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be

Now i heard little children
Were supposed to sleep tight
That's why i got into the vodka one night
My parents got frantic
Didn't know what to do
But i saw some crazy scenes
Before i came to
Now do you think i was crazy
I may have been only three
But i was swinging

They all laugh at angry young men
They all laugh at edison
And also at einstein
So why should i feel sorry
If they just couldn't understand
The idiomatic logic
That went on in my head
I had a brain
It was insane
Oh they used to laugh at me
When i refused to ride
On all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top

My analyst told me
That i was right out of my head
But i said dear doctor
I think that it's you instead
Because i have got a thing
That's unique and new
To prove it i'll have
The last laugh on you
'cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one.

I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show
I've been listening to the sirens and the radio
He said he'd be over three hours ago
I've been waiting for his car on the hill
He makes friends easy
He's not like me
I watch for judgement anxiously
Now where in the city can that boy be
Waiting for a car
Climbing
Climbing
Climbing the hill

He's a real good talker--i think he's friend
Fast tires come screaming around the bend
But there's still no buzzer
They roll on...
And-i'm waiting for his car on the hill
It always seems so righteous at the start
When there's so much laughter
When there's so much spark
When there's so much sweetness in the dark
Waiting for a car
Climbing
Climbing
Climbing the hill

All the people at this party
They've got a lot of style
They've got stamps of many countries
They've got passport smiles
Some are friendly
Some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre
Giving to get something

Photo beauty gets attention
Then her eye paint's running down
She's got a rose in her teeth
And a lampshade crown
One minute she's so happy
Then she's crying on someone's knee
Saying laughing and crying
You know it's the same release

I told you when i met you
I was crazy
Cry for us all beauty
Cry for eddie in the corner
Thinking he's nobody
And jack behind his joker
And stone-cold grace behind her fan
And me in my frightened silence
Thinking i don't understand

I feel like I'm sleeping
Can you wake me
You seem to have a broader sensibility
I'm just living on nerves and feelings
With a weak and a lazy mind
And coming to peoples parties
Fumbling deaf dumb and blind

I wish I had more sense of humor
Keeping the sadness at bay
Throwing the lightness on these things
Laughing it all away
Laughing it all away
Laughing it all away

He was sitting in the lounge of the empire hotel
He was drinking for diversion
He was thinking for himself
A little money riding on the maple leafs
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She says...
"let me sit down
You know, drinkin' alone's a shame
It's a shame, it's a crying shame
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey-you've got lots of cash
Bring us round a bottle
And we'll have some laughs
Gin's what i'm drinking
I was raised on robbery

I'm a pretty good cook
I'm sitting on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen
I'll show you my best recipe
I try and i try but i can't save a cent
I'm up after midnight, cooking
Trying to make my rent
I'm rough but i'm pleasin'
I was raised on robbery

We had a little money once
They were pushing through a four iane highway
Government gave us three thousand dollars
You should have seen it fly away
First he bought a '57 biscayne
He put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest
That son of a bitch
His blood's bad whiskey
I was raised on robbery

You know you ain't bad looking
I like the way you hold your drinks
Come home with me honey
I ain't asking for no full length mink
Hey, where you going...
Don't go yet...
Your glass ain't empty and we just met
You're mean when your loaded-
I was raised on robbery"

"the way i see it," he said
"you just can't win it...
Everybody's in it for their own gain
You can't please 'em all
There's always somebody calling you down
I do my best
And i do good business
There's a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
They're trying to be a good friend of mine

I was a free man in paris
I felt unfettered and alive
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide
You know i'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work i've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers
And telephone screamers
Lately i wonder what i do it for
If l had my way
I'd just walk through those doors
And wander
Down the champs elysees
Going cafe to cabaret
Thinking how i'll feel when i find
That very good friend of mine

I was a free man in paris
I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
No one's future to decide
You know i'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work i've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song."