Distorted Ghost
2000
[Apple Music / iTunes]-
1. Happy Man (Memphis Version)
If I had
If I had more
More would be laid at your feet
If you give me
Just a little smile
The dogs on my trail wouldn’t drag me back to jail
I woke up in a horse’s stomach one foggy morning
His eyes were crazy and he smashed into the cemetery gates
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
I’ve seen teeth
Across the horizon
Fangs spanning yellow against the earth
There ain’t nothing here but ghosts
Fever, rabbit dreams and drunken boats
I woke up In a horse’s stomach one foggy morning
His eyes were crazy and he smashed into the cemetery gates
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
I woke up in a horse’s stomach one foggy morning
His eyes were crazy and he smashed into the cemetery gates
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man -
Stayed up all night
Lightning bugs so bright
And the air turned cold and black
A turtle trapped on its back
And waiting for nothing
Waiting for nothing
I’m waiting for nothing
I’m waiting for nothing
Rising from the earth
Measuring my worth
And the fog is thick and wet
Gonna get worse I bet
I’m waiting for nothing
Waiting for nothing
I’m waiting for nothing
I’m waiting for nothing -
Every day
Held at bay
Lucy says
He’s a star
Here we are
In a car
Far away
Oh why don’t you
Go on and get in your
Happy place?
Oh why don’t you
Go on and get in your
Happy place?
Everyday
Mary says
Lucy stay
It’s easier
To get her to go
And run away
Far away
Oh why don’t you
Go on and get in your
Happy place?
Oh why don’t you
Go on and get in your
Happy place?
Everyday
It’s okay
Lucy says -
( Written by Daniel Johnston)
Blue clouds twisted into a funnel
Somewhere far off the thunder roaring
And the fortune teller has fixed her sleepy eyes on my child
Sometimes I climb high up in a tree
To let the wind blow in my face
Sometimes I leave my cares lying in piles
Somewhat disturbing
Is the sound of birds singing
When you know you don’t deserve it
You’re not here today
And I feel just like an empty eggshell
And my yoke is heavy
My yoke is heavy
My voice is a little horse
Galloping lost through the woods
Calling your name
It’s new to me
But just the same
The earth is an old canvas painted over many times
The poet rambles
The world it scrambles
But who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Your shadow knows
It’s right behind you all the way
Your shadow knows where you’ve been
My yoke is heavy
My yoke is heavy
My yoke is heavy
Sacred is the smile
That opened up my mind
That may at last come save me
And rid my cold cold heart
Of the dark deep gloom
That took up so much room
In my many spacious memories
My yoke is heavy
My yoke is heavy
My yoke is heavy -
The flowers of evil
You left at my door
Set ‘em in a broken glass
And tasted my own blood
Yes your hair looks beautiful today
Gasoline horses will take us away
And charge forth
With fiery manes
And bellies full of clocks
Four ton
Deaf and dumb
We poor old dogs of God
Yes your hair smelled like sunshine today
Gasoline horses will take us away -
If I had
If I had more
More would be laid at your feet
If you give me
Just a little smile
The dogs on my trail wouldn’t drag me back to jail
I woke up in a horse’s stomach one foggy morning
His eyes were crazy and he smashed into the cemetery gates
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
I’ve seen teeth
Across the horizon
Fangs spanning yellow against the earth
There ain’t nothing here but ghosts
Fever, rabbit dreams and drunken boats
I woke up In a horse’s stomach one foggy morning
His eyes were crazy and he smashed into the cemetery gates
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
I woke up in a horse’s stomach one foggy morning
His eyes were crazy and he smashed into the cemetery gates
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
All I want is to be a happy man
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