It's James Now Lyrics - Slingshot Professionals - Kelly Joe Phelps

Well, Double R.J. is older now, he stays up watching the night snow fall 

Black bound book on the table, dusty beside card tricks and games 

Yeah, one by one he cuts the names from the back of the daily news 

Laying side by side they make quite a company of men 

Yeah, and all the things they've done and not done, glaring under the scope 

Double R.J.'s mom, she called this morning, all is well back home 

And how are you today, my son, "Fine, ma, I'm fine" 

Seventeen pages set in place for a back line of memories 

Yeah, the new one's fighting for space and concern 

Walter winks across the cue 

My folks are goin' out today, I've got some weed, are you comin'? 

And it's twenty four years later, the movie lot's still intact 

Tables buried under truck bones and machine shop tools 

Well, Walter hasn't found his way from the park yet to page eighteen 

Oh, and all those girls, God, what were their names? 

Should've kept their pictures 

It's starting to blur on Double R.J., they're rolling into one 

Except for Elvin the snake and Indian George 

And the guy you couldn't scare 

And then first kiss on the playground bought with sister's stolen ring 

So the odd discomfort shawl, drapes it across his bony wings 

As the loss of honest vision seers, pioneers and double dares 

Set your clothes on fire if you ever breathed a word 

And Double R.J. falls backwards, he can see further away 

And Double R.J. falls backwards, he can see further and further away