You Can't Do Me

You can't do me

You can't do me

You can't do me

The way you did before

You can't do me

You can't do me

You can't do me

The way you did before

'Cause when you do

And when you do

'Cause when you do

You know I get so blue

When you do

And when you do

And when you do

You know I get so blue

And I'd go down like a deep-sea diver

Out like a Coltrane tenor man

Lost like a Chinese war baby

Gone, gone, gone

I'd be blue like a Mississippi sharecropper

Screwed like a high school cheerleader

Tattooed like a pop-eyed sailor man

Gone, gone, gone

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been

A pair of ragged claws

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been

A pair of ragged claws

And for a while

For just a while

For a good long while

You'd see me smile, smile, smile

And crawl the seas

On my bony knees

No apologies

For my brave new style

I wouldn't go bust like an internet millionaire

Boom like a Lebanese belly dancer

Bang like a New Years' firecracker

Gone, gone, gone

I wouldn't get bent like a rattan rocking chair

Blank like a last-place salter man

Blame like an Arkansas griddle cake

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been

A pair of ragged claws

And if I was

If I was

Then if I was

Then I'd complain no more

And for a while

For just a while

And for a good long while

You'd see me smile, smile, smile

And crawl the seas

On my bony knees

No apologies

For my brave new style

I wouldn't get wrecked like a ribbon on a race track

Jacked like a '51 Cadillac

Macked like a bunny in the mansion

Gone, gone, gone

Spitoon like an Alabama back-yward

Harpooned in a Melville sail yard

Cartoon like a Charlie Brown Christmas card

Gone, gone, gone

Scooped like a milk money bully whip

Sued like a teenage down loader

Unglued like a bull in a china shop

Gone, gone, gone

Cranked like a speed freak high roller

Yanked like a little league ball swatter

Spanked like a fly on a bar counter

Gone, gone, gone

Duped like a pistol whip card swapper

Rebuked like a bottled-up border crosser

Juked like a payola chart topper

Gone, gone, gone