Lyrical breakdowns... literally.

Slip out the back
Make a new plan
Hop on the bus
Drop off the key

Things you might need to discuss:

Not much

Things you don't need to be:

Coy

Things you need to get yourself:

Free

Distinguishing feature
- feasting on own heart (cannibal?)

Seeking
- stuff (ie sex)

Type of stuff
- hot (v.important)

Search mode
- telephone + phone directory

Anticipated arrival
- tonight, ie this evening

Level of desire:
- want
- need
- gotta have

Type of lover
- unattached or bored, ie needs another
- warm blooded
- wild man

Destination
- back home

- A unicorn (heading the Mystical Way)
- a thousand golden angels at play
- centaurs
- elves
- bright fairies all in colours of Jade
- seven solemn flying silvered regal horses
- seven golden chariots in tow (a wonder to behold!)
- The "Seven Lords of the Mountains of Time"
- A giant tent rising one thousand feet high from the floor
- Townpeople
- The "Seventh Lord of the Seventh Age"
- Visions of: Grecian galleons, The Sack of Troy, the Gardens of Babylon, The gigantic dreams of Alexander the Great
- Zeus
plus more animals
plus more angels

None of these things:
- clowns
- tigers
- lions
- bears
- candy-floss
- toffee apples

Action items:
-- change

Prerequisites:
-- I must be with her now

Recommendations:
-- drugs to cure my ills

Results:
-- my ills are with me still

Conclusion:
-- if I were with her now ...

1. Sleep
2. Travel
3. A mansion up in the hills
4. Love your neighbor 'til his wife gets home

Thanks, Jim.

-your mercury mouth in the missionary times
-your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes
-your silver cross, and your voice like chimes
-your pockets well protected at last
-your streetcar visions which you place on the grass
-your flesh like silk, and your face like glass
-your sheets like metal and your belt like lace
-your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace
-your basement clothes and your hollow face
-your silhouette when the sunlight dims
-your eyes where the moonlight swims
-your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns
-your childhood flames on your midnight rug
-your Spanish manners and your mother's drugs
-your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs
-your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row
-your magazine-husband who one day just had to go
-your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show
-your holy medallion which your fingertips fold
-your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul
-sea at your feet and the phony false alarm
-the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms

How I would describe myself/my possessions

-My warehouse eyes
-my Arabian drums

Should I

-leave them by your gate
-wait

How I would describe them/their intentions/actions

-the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
-The kings of Tyrus with their convict list
Are waiting in line for their geranium kis
-the farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide
To show you the dead angels that they used to hide
-They wished you'd accepted the blame for the farm

Questions I have for them

-Who among them do they think could carry you
-Who among them would try to impress you
-Who among them would try to impress you
-who among them really wants just to kiss you
-why did they pick you to sympathize with their side

cmd> let it all blow

Menu:

Option 1:
Option 2: Down

Select:

A) Stay
B) Go

Consequences:

A) Will be trouble
B) Will be double

Desired eqivalency:
1. Your need of my love
2. My need of you

Request:
-Hold me (x2)
-Love me (x2)

What I don't not have eight days a week:
-Love

What I don't have eight days a week:
-Enough time to show I care

What's always on my mind:
-Love for you

Vocalisable facts:
-Love you all the time

Things which people call me:
• the space cowboy
• the gangster of love
• Maurice

Things which I am:
• A picker
• A grinner
• A lover
• A sinner
• A joker,
• A smoker
• A midnight toker

A. On your own
B. With no direction home
C. Like a complete unknown
D. Like a rolling stone

What I am:
 not aware 
   What I'm not aware of:
     too many things
 what I am
What I know:
 what I know 
if you know what I mean.
What philosophy is:
  the talk on a cereal box.
  a walk on the slippery rocks
What religion is:
  the smile on a dowg.
  a light in the fog

Instructions and questions for you:
  Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
  Are you what you are - or what?
  Do you know what I mean?

110 IF (Y="CAN NEED") THEN (Z="CAN CARE")

120 IF (Z="CAN CARE") THEN (U="CAN LOVE")

130 ON X = "CAN WANT" GOSUB 210

210 PRINT "I'LL BE THERE"

Things that the detectives are doing:
• Shooting
• Shooting
• Shooting
• Shooting
• Beating him up

-A heaven
-A gateway
-A hope
-This feeling inside

Things it hurts me to do:

-Treat you this way

Things that are too hard to say:

-Words I've never heard

Things I think I'll do tonight:

-Walk alone
-Find myself as I get home

Things you've got:

-Green eyes
-Blue eyes
-Grey eyes

Things you are not quite like:

-Anyone I've met before
-Anyone I've seen before

Things that hit the people down below:

-Thoughts from above

Places people of this world have to go:

...

-A sex bomb, my baby, yeah

Teddy
Cathy
Bobby
G-berg
Georgie
Sly
Bobby
Mary
Bobbie
Judy
Eddie
Tony
Brian

What they all had in common, other than dying:
They were all Jim Carroll's friends

People who killed:
Herbie
The very same bikers

Very dangerous things for people who know Jim Carroll to do:
Sniffing glue at 12 years old
Ingesting 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Getting leukemia
Letting one's gimmicks go rotten
Taking a bullet in the head
OD'ing on Drano
Taking a dry dive from a hotel room
Hanging oneself from a cell in the tombs
Jumping in front of a subway train
Getting slit in the jugular vein
Hanging out on the Boys' Club roof (particularly with Herbie)
Ratting on some bikers

People who thought they could fly:
Tony

People who couldn't fly:
Tony

1. An old man turning ninety-eight, winning the lottery and then dying the next day
2. A black fly in your Chardonnay
3. A death row pardon two minutes too late
4. Rain on your wedding day
5. A free ride when you've already paid
6. The good advice that you just didn't take
7. Mr. Play It Safe being afraid to fly, yet getting killed in a plane crash
8. A traffic jam when you're already late
9. A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
10. Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
11. Meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

Things you need:
Sunscreen
Calcium
Your knees
Advice (but be careful whose advice you buy)
Your old love letters
Compliments

Things you don't need:
Jealousy
Your old bank statements
Beauty Magazines
Insults

Things you should do:
Enjoy your youth
Do stuff that scares you
Sing
Dance
Enjoy your body
Use your body
Read directions (although you need not necessarily follow them)
Travel

Things you shouldn't do:
Worrying about the future
Knowing what you are going to do with your life
Messing with your hair (unless you want to look 85 at the age of 40)
Congratulation yourself (at least not too much)

Places where you should live:
New York City (but leave before it makes you hard)
Northern California (but leave before it makes you soft)

People should be nice against and/or respect:
Other people (particularly their hearts)
Your siblings
Your parents
Your elders

Stuff you cannot do anything about no matter what you want to:
The future
Whether you're behind other people or not
Whether you'll marry or not
Whether you'll have children or not
Whether you'll divorce at 40 or not
Whether you'll be able to dance the Funky Chicken at your 75th anniversary or not
Friends coming and going
Prices rising
Policians philandering
You getting old
Whether people will support you or not
Having a trust found or not
Having a wealthy spot or not

A little bit of everything all rolled into one
bitch
lover
child
mother
sinner
saint
not ashamed
your hell
your dream
nothing inbetween
a tease
a goddess on my knees
your angel undercover
numb
revived

(and a purveyor of shit songs, but unfortunately that's not explicit in this list, though undeniably true nonetheless)

Born:
-- in a crossfire hurricane

Raised:
-- by a toothless bearded hag

Schooling:
-- with a strap right across my back

Interests:
-- howling at my Ma in the driving rain

Relevant Experience:
-- was drowned, washed up, and left for dead
-- crowned with a spike right through my head

Health issues:
-- bloody feet

Dietary restrictions:
-- dislike for the crumbs of a crust of bread

Other comments:
-- it's all right
-- it's a gas

12 partridges in 12 pear trees
22 turtle doves
30 French hens
36 calling birds
40 golden rings
42 geese a-laying
42 swans a-swimming
40 maids a-milking
36 ladies dancing
30 lords a-leaping
22 pipers piping
12 drummers drumming

What she wanted to do:
Live like common people, basically. Including sleeping with them, seeing whatever they see and doing whatever they do. She also had a general thirst for knowledge

What she needed to do to be able to fullfil her wish:
Pretend she's got no money
Rent a flat about a shop
Cut her hair and get a job
Smoke fags
Play pool
Pretend she never went to school

Reasons why she could never have things the way she wanted:
She couldn't imagine what it was like to have no money
If she called her dad, he could stop her from being wealthy at anytime

How many roads must a man walk before you may call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail getting to sleep?
How many times must cannonballs fly before they are banned forever?
How many times must a man look up to be able to spot the sky?
How many ears does one need to hear people cry?
How many must die before too many have died?
How long does it take for a mountain to get washed to the sea?
How many years of existing must some people cope with until they are allowed to be free?
How many times can a man pretend he just doesn't see?

Getting the facts straight:
- God doesn't exist
- There are no saints
- There are no sinners
- The Bible was written by crazy humans, some of which still believe that junk is true
- The Father, Son and Holy Ghost are all just a hoax
- Mankind must have made God. And the Devil too!

Repeat as necessary.

and according to an earlier draft of the song,
(D) White Trash

What money can do:
- take you far

Thinngs making you look just like a queen:
- backstage pass
- black sunglasses

What I want and need to know:
do you love me?

What I just gotta know:
if you really really really, really love me.

- An oven mitt
- Present notebook for you
- A bit of Iggy Stooge
- Reduced smoking habit
- Sex but not having it
- One face
- Two face new
- Slippery shoes for your horrible feet
- To love her so much
- "Us as pressure group"
- Face with girl past
- A profile that is low-key
- To meet your horrible new dad with a grudge against me
- A censor
- "Face mag for arse"
- Three rules of audience
- Mug of Geoff Travis, framed
- The book Theft is Vision by the brothers Copeland.
- Finance luck

Time of celebration
?Etonight

Special Management directive:
?Edo not stop dancing

Objective of music
?Eto feel feeling

Frequency of meeting
?EOne more time

- You look like Siouxie Sioux
- this outfit appears to have taken some time, which is an inefficient use of resources
- You seem to be wearing black much of the time
- Other patrons have noticed you reciting poetry
- this is not appreciated, we would prefer you concentrate on the consumption of wine as provided, not fraternise with others
- this notion of intellectualism appears to be a cover for your sexual preferences
- You also have been reported as having a job at "Hardees", this is not allowed by policy

Artists it has been said you like to dance to:

- the Communards
- Book of Love
- the Smiths
- Depeche Mode
- Public Image Limited
- Naked Truth

Requested action:
- Cease supporting the European arts, and instead channel finances towards local product, such as ourselves.

• Played guitar
• Jammed good
• Played it left-hand
• Made it too far
• Became the special man
• Really sang

Things that Ziggy was able to do:

• Lick them by smiling
• Leave them to hang
• Again, play guitar

More things that Ziggy did:

• Came on so loaded man
• Played for time
• Jived us that we were voodoo
• Took it all too far
• Made love with his ego
• Sucked up into his mind
• Played guitar

Attributes of Ziggy:

• Screwed-up eyes
• Screwed-down hairdo
• Well-hung
• Snow-white tan

Things Ziggy resembled:

• Some cat from Japan
• A leper messiah

Re A:
  i) Quantity of distinct drinks consumed:
    • 4.
  ii) Total quantity of drinks consumed:
    • Exact amount uncertain; apparently large.
  iii) Main alcoholic ingredients of said drinks:
    • Whisky.
    • Vodka.
    • Lager.
    • Cider.

Re B:
  i) Attendant circumstance of singing:
    • Victory.
  ii) Mnemonic properties of songs sung:
    • Reminiscent of good times.
    • Reminiscent of better times.
  iii) Personage invoked by song:
    • One "Danny Boy".
  iv) Miscellaneous content of song:
    • Request to neighbour not to lament protagonist's situation.

Re C:
  i) Hyperbolic description of duration of pissing:
    • "The night away".

Re D:
  i) Physical attitude assumed upon suffering act of violence:
    • Arising.
  ii) Mental attitude assumed upon suffering act of violence:
    • Indefatigable, steadfast.

Items we possess:
•fun n'games
•everything you want
•your disease
•the names

Items we can locate:
•whatever you may need

Common jungle activities:
•live like an animal
•play

Jungle situation:
•worsening daily

Jungle comestibles:
•the bright lights

You are:
•a very sexy girl
•very hard to please

Things you may or may not have:
•the money, honey
•anything you want

My desires:
•to hear you scream
•to watch you bleed
•for you to feel my serpentine

Destinations to which the jungle will bring you:
•your shananananananana knees
•down, huh!

Things she did:
- kept her motor clean
- told me to come but I was already there
- had me fighting for air
- made a meal out of me and came back for more

The walls were:
- shakin'

The earth was:
- quakin'

My mind was:
- achin'

People who shook me all night long:
- you

I am:
• a wheel
• the sun
• the day
• the night
• the dark
• the light
• the man

I can:
• roll
• feel
• move
• run
• show you the way
• see inside you

You can't stop me
• turning
• burning

Come:
• down with fire
• lift my spirit higher
• and make me holy again

I am located:
• right beside you
• on the silver mountain

Instances when I am lazy:
• When I'm loving
• When I play
• With my girlfriend (x1000)
• When I'm speaking
• When I walk
• When I'm dancing
• When I walk (possible duplicate of "When I'm speaking)

What comes out when I open up my mouth:
• Nothin'
• Nada
• Never
• How'd you like me now?

Observations about some folk:
• They got money
• Have sweet lives
• They make decisions
• They clean the streets

Suggest plan of action:
• Imagine life is perfect and everything's working out

-Things that new drug won't make me
sick
crash my car
feel three feet thick
nervous, wondering what to do
sleep all day
talk too much
feel too bad
feel too good

-Things that new drug will not make my face/mouth/eyes
break out/too dry/too red

-Condition in which that new drug won't keep me all night
up

-Other things that new drug will not do
spill
hurt my head

-Things that new drug will do
what it should

-Form in which that new drug will not come
pill

-Cost of that new drug
not too much

-Person with which that new drug will make me feel like I'm alone
you