Narragansett

Down, just past the tree line
You will find my body there
Please, I beg you, please
Don’t show my children
What has become of me

John once said, “Let's come together”
All it ever got me was a bullet in the back
Just like him
But now that the snow has melted
My body’s free, now go
You will find me down at the river
Where it overflowed
Way back in late December
Where Mrs. Sullivan slipped
On the ice, very nice
I saw it all

How did they make us?
Oh, how did they know?
That I’d been there in the basement
Laying low
I think I may have been
Born at the wrong time
It’s what everybody says
Oh no

I saw the whole thing

I came to Philadelphia
With a rod in my hand
I sure am no saint
I am no righteous man
I don’t miss the cold
But I do miss the sand
It takes some adjusting
And I know that I can
And I tell you
I am no righteous man

They all like to treat me
Like a wanted man
They come from far and wide
Just to spit in my hand
I came in September
To run from the cold
The young, they tolerate it
But my body’s getting old
And I tell you
I am no righteous man

Cold, cold, cold
It’s cold in the snow
If I stay or I go
Nobody will know
Or care
There’s nobody there
To say, “Stay, please, please, please, please”

I came to Philadelphia
From up north, Newfoundland
My mother, she was a teacher
My dad a fisherman
I don’t miss the cold
But I do miss the sand
It'll take some adjusting
But I’m sure that I can

Everybody wants a piece of me
I am a lonesome man making history
They say
We’re all just raindrops in a stream

There’ll be nobody gathered around the tree
It’s set, the game is rigged, I am the referee
I swear, the frog said it best
It is not easy being green

Everybody likes to look at me
Like I’m Norman Bates or I’m Palpatine
It’s a shame, even with that smile
They’d take the seasick crocodile

Mean, so mean
You’re a mean one, mean one
Mean, so mean

You’re mean

Everybody gather round
Listen up and quiet down
You’re on the nice list, the nice list
The rest of you all acting bad
The time has come for feeling sad
You’ll be crying, glowing, trying, growing old

Nobody taught you how to be
And they won’t know, cause they can’t see
What you’re doing when you’re alone
You grew up cruel, yet out of view
But Nicholas is on to you
He’s got an eye on you

Nobody said it would be this way
Nobody said so
Nobody said things would be like this
But then again
Nobody said that it wouldn’t

When I think about the time I let go
What could have been, I’ll never know
Cause I’ve thrown the good away
I’d give my life to stay
The little boy I used to be
A whole heart and a family
Trying to change back is useless
But then again, try again

Old Erik’s a villain
I bet you could make a killing
If you catch him alive
But just one look in his eyes
You’d be running the other way
It won’t be okay

Old Erik, he’s wicked
They say he’s wretched throughout
Don’t think he won’t eat your children
If they wander about
You see those eyes at the tree line?
That’s him waiting for you

Way back in the day
When I was younger
I could scrap with the best of them
But now that I’m old
They call me a devil
But it’s good to be
Back in the fjords again

Old Erik’s a villain
You could make a killing
If you’d fetch him alive
But just one look in his eyes
I tell ya, he’s wicked
He’s rotten throughout
And he will eat your children
If they wander about

Old Erik’s a villain
The stories are true
That’s him at the tree line
He’s waiting for you
Old Erik, he’s wicked
He’s rotten throughout
He will eat your children
If they wander about

You think you’re getting coal
Cause you’ve been acting cold
I’m coming for your soul
I have no mercy for a nine-year-old

What you see in the daytime
They just won’t believe
But when the night comes
They’ll be tossing in their sleep
They are watching out for me

That little boy on your street
That knocked you off your feet
Well him I’ll eat
With a side of cranberry
What a treat
Have it your way
But before Saint Nicholas day
I’ll take you away
There’s no point to pray

Next time you're down my way
You come and see me, I'll be counting down the days
'Till I see you again

I'll be sittin' legs dangling off the dock
I rather watch the sun than watch the clock
I got a can of Narragansett with your name on it

When you smile it's like the season changed
It's been a while but somehow it still feels strange
I thought I'd die alone, but not for a long time
Boy, I got so lucky that you came my way

When we go out and we are seen
All those fishing boys, they all turn green
At least in the daytime

You wear a tie, I’ll wear a dress
We'll say our vows and make a mess
Then we can get on with getting old together

Here’s another song for the little man
Holding my hand
Waiting for the day when he understands

There’s these moments in life that really hit you
Straight in the gut
You can feel the weight

The first was your mother walking down the aisle
The second was you
And you blew her away
And I think she’s okay with that

You came out purple
Screaming
And I just stared

You looked a little like a little Grimace
Your head was like a cone
I caught your first minutes on a cell phone

You had the hair of a middle-aged man
Funny looking guy
You got cuter as the days went by

Every once in a while I would hear people say
I didn’t know then,
But now I understand all the cliches

If I only knew this was the way my parents felt about me
I wouldn’t have been
Such a pain in the ass

Cause there’s these moments in life that really hit you
Straight in the gut
You can feel the weight

I think there’s good things waiting for you

Here’s another song for the little man
Holding my hand
Waiting for the day

Every Halloween they come out to be seen
In the night to test your doubts
Everybody knows even the little things can go
To your head and freak you out

But ghosts will be ghosts
And it’s the kids that scare the most
I don’t blame them
They just wanna have some fun

Go and get it back
Try and set it right
Crawl out your grave
Fly for your life
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to go
You suck it up and watch it grow loud

Every now and then I think back to when
We were young, was it worth the sweets?
'Cause every Halloween they come out to be seen
In the night while we trick or treat

Taking your time
But making the most of it
And it could be a little hard to fit
Every bit of what you want
Into your life

You tell me it’s fine
You say it’s all good
Well I could sure try
Don’t know that I should
Cause I don’t know
It just doesn’t feel right

Line up on me you say?
Line up on me you know
Line up on me you say?
Gotta find your own way

Everything comes back around
That’s what I say to my friends
I’ll say it again
Yes I know
Everything
Comes back around, around, around, around

I know that it seems nuts
We’ve spared no expense
Hold onto your butts
Cause we’re coming for you
There’s a strange change coming up
It’s gonna feel a little weird
But you can’t say that it’s boring

I’ll share it with you, you’ll probably think that I’m lame
Inviting the pain, but I’ll share it the same
Just saw the new Kong, now my heart is in knots
I wanna marry a girl that looks just like Naomi Watts

You’re the cutest girl in the entire school
And for some reason, you think that I’m cool
Well I’m a lucky guy and I like you a lots
But at the end of the day, you just ain't no Naomi Watts

In my dreams, she would see me
In my dreams, she would let me know
She likes her men skinny with afro
This is the dream of a seventeen-year-old

But I’m scared that she’d look at me
And she’d see something pretty ugly
How could I live with that
I don’t know, I don’t know

I could make some money
Maybe she’d find me funny
Make myself desirable in some other way
I wanna marry a girl that looks just like Naomi Watts