Charlie Parker

I was high, I was dry in my warm latrine I had just settled down with a good magazine Boston was electric tonight, Larry Bird was on a roll Every single shot landed, he was on cruise control Up to Cushing Avenue with your Ma and your Pa Even Kyle Mooney wondering, "What the hell? What the fuck?" When I slipped him a hundy underneath his little coat When he reached out, I handed him another C note Well, I guess I needed a cheap thrill and long Limousine I hankered for whiskey and pretty ladies plenty I hunkered right down and I passed me around I fell asleep under a Satanic spell I wrestled with substance, I struggled for fame But I came back singing this melody I came back whistling a pretty melody So said melody it will happen now My dreams are out there Somewhere on that motorway In the back of a truck, in the rear of a van In a box stacked head high with life flying by man! I guess it had to be this way? Yeah, a dream, it's just an ignition point Causing quite the spark, lighting up the joint Can I get a witness now? Can anybody show me how? Can anybody help me out? And just then Kurt Elling and Al Jarreau Came singing in tongues, modulating in fourths They asked me to join in, I feigned no reply But I leaned over, and I scatted Charlie Parker's lullaby You know Orville and Wilbur were the first in flight From old Kitty Hawk, they did what was right In front of their eyes as the eagle flew An industrial revolution... The Big Snafu My dreams are out there Somewhere in that in Milky Way In the back of a truck, in the rear of a van In a box stacked head high with life flying by man! I guess it had to be this way? Yeah, a dream, it's just an ignition point Causing quite the spark, lighting up the joint Can I get a witness now? Can anybody help me out?