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?