Hi Too Loo Rye (feat. Frances Quinlan)

Mother, once I awoke as an old man My name was Stanley Forbes And I threw tin cans At everyone who passed my porch I don't know why I did But I didn't throw them at the kids, so I was a good guy I remember yellin' Hi, too loo rye It's the day before I die, so why? Too loo rye 'Cause everybody walking by? Oh hi, too loo rye It's the day before I die And I wanna sigh and cry Alongside my brothers Mother, once I awoke as a squirrel And I jumped from tree to tree to tree to tree It was me, at the acme of my career I saved all I caught that year Which is a lot of acorns, let me tell you I was very resourceful And I cried Too loo rye This is how it feels to fly so high Too loo rye This ain't nothing cash could buy Oh hi, too loo rye Tomorrow, I could die So I'm gonna climb the pines and Have myself a time Mother, I dreamt I died last night See, I was a lightbulb Left on a little too long And I burned till I was dead With a hundred good ideas in my head But I forgot 'em all And they tried to throw me away But hey! When they grabbed ahold of me They all would burn their hands and see that I was still quite hot with thought and so A little thought they got that They should keep me As a kind of warmth you can't get from A stove or hearth And so I sought and thought and fought But then cooled down and said Oh hi, too loo rye To think I had a light inside When I try, too loo rye To remember what I wanted to find So sigh, too loo rye I thought that I had died But I think tonight I've got it right I'm Stanley and the squirrel, the invisible light I'm a lover, liar, humble fire, I'm a little spider And a chicken on the wire Climbin', tryin' Sighin', cryin' Laughin', high fivin' Slowly dyin' But I swear now, that's alright! Yeah I swear now, that's alright Dear mother, I'm alright