Jody Lyrics - Jim Carroll

Jody, what you been doing? 

It's been a long, long time 

Since we went dancing in the schoolyard, 

With your breasts like bleeding limes 

Jody, are you still hanging with that latin? 

With rabbit fur inside his wheels? 

With his gilbert roland piece, 

And his glove department deals 

Uptown, we watched the debutantes skating 

Across the reservoir ice 

Dressed in tweed and leather flags . . . 

And you whispered six words twice 

Jody, look what time has done 

To people who live on the run 

Jody, look what time has done 

Jody, I spent years living at the movies 

I really hated you awhile 

I wrote so many incantations 

Lord, I had to keep a file . . . you said 

"uptown . . ." and I said, "downtown." 

Downtown the rooftops are wide 

I was sinking in the tar, I screamed, 

"this city is on my side" 

Jody, go to any window; 

Raise your eyes up to the sky . . . 

Is that our destiny of yesterday 

Or just a vault of lies? 

But jody, look what time has done 

To people who live on the run 

Jody, look what time has done 

Jody, all the lay-down promises 

They were just a trading of scars 

But I remember the wild nights; 

Hey, we changed mountains into stars 

Uptown, the buildings are syringes 

They're all just glass and dreams 

One thing about manhattan, it's always 

Just what it seems 

But jody, 

Remember the part 

And how we entered at the zoo 

That's when I told you that the cheetah 

Walked as fine as you 

But jody, look what time has done 

To people who live on the run 

Jody, look what time has done