If I could just get it on paper
The things that have happened tonight
But that seems to me
to be the big key
I'm havin' too good a time to ever turn
Out the lights.
Go to bed
wake up with a clear head
Recalling what made it a ball
If I could just get it on
paper
I might make some sense of it all
If I could tell half of the stories
The
funny way most things begin
Figure ways to disguise all the half truths and lies
Find the
heart of my song with the point of a pen
Simple words can be come clever phrases
And
chapters could turn into books
Yes if I could just get it on paper
But it's harder than it
ever looks.
All alone in the edge of the water
Hidin' out by the Sea of Cortez
With
my sketch pads and Flairs
Tapes and battery spares
It's just no comprehendo to what
everyone says
Time alone seemed to work well for Faulkner
Time away seems to work for
the kid
Life and ink they run out at the same time
Or so said my old friend the
squid
Yes if I could just get it on paper tonight
I could tell you what I think I did.
