My mother was a tailor. She sewed these new blue jeans. My father was a gambler. Down in New Orleans. The only thing a gambler needs. His suitcase and a trunk.
Well your brain is weary and your manner rough. Well OK but that's enough. Crazy lights, crazy fights. Cotton's on the way hey. Walk along sing a song and pray.
I can't believe I'm here. With all the deaths I almost died. And then woke up in another place. Disoriented, I shook my head. What, where, how. Who, when, how much.
Hey mister can you tell me. Is there a knife stuck in your face. Have matchbook covers been your mirrors. Do you feel your hand in your own pocket. Hey mister do you count the shadows that fall before you.
I see it says Pitchstone Plateau. Before I had a chance to shut the door. Helena you held no lies. Stolen from my youthful eyes. Captured in your fleeting past.
[woman] Let us have a hand for Harry Idle. [Jandek] A hand. [woman] He was peace and older days. [Jandek] A hand, a hand, a hand for Harry Idle. [Jandek] Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. And now you want a fortune too. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You think you'll ever be untrue?. Ha ha ha.... You think you'll ever be untrue?.
Gretchen, Gretchen. I've been fetchin'. Some shiny fish. From the sea. The sea. Down in Galilee.
Green dreams in the springtime. April dreams that bloom in May. Green dream's better than gray. Come all the colors that bloom in May. The earth wakes up.
It's only that I forget how to look at things. In green and yellow of the world outside. The faces of the people in the shadows. It's not only that I could not practice art.
(Jandek, with woman repeating after and occasionally before him). We are here in earth, in life, in sky, in magic, in rain, in love, in fire, in celebration.
Now I got time to wait awhile. Before I walk that faithful mile. And so I sit beside a window. So I can see which way the winds blow. It's a promised land you hold in your hand.
I'm going away my darling. I'll send you my address. A black cat crossed my path. And I'm nervous at the sound. Sun will greet me in the morning. Wind will meet me in the cold.
Oh jeez. You got me hollering please. Where does it all come from anyway. Do I really want this to stay. It must have been right. I'm a fool. Are you gonna be here when I die.
God came between us. He brought a huge sun. He brought the black night. We know no other way. God came between us. The line made us all blind, made us blind.
They threw it down. To the other. You should be proud. You've been up so long. You'll never be down. I saw you standing there. With a smile in your hair.
Well my hands are tired,. Oh my hands are tired. And I, as I need to see, I can't find. ???. You want something, dear, I can't provide. ?????. Find me on the corner, ????.
By the sea by the sea. In a Point Judith diary I. Found many rocks all pretty colors. I found waves that split the sound. Of a silent summer's day. And oh the smell it is so clean.