Ain't you in love with anybody yet?


GOODBYE MISTER SORROW MAN

Hey Mister Sorrow Man,
Have you got a breath to say goodbye, crammed
Between damp walls of wist and regret?
Mister Sorrow Man, everybody’s got to leave sometime,
Ain’t it true, did I ever lie to you?

When you and me danced in Rio,
Mister Sorrow Man, you and your mocha woman
And me and mine,
I got scared and ran across the threshold
And tripped with sour heels.

Here is my map, Mister Sorrow Man,
And these veins are my red highways,
The simple spirals toward nowhere I’ve been
And everywhere I’ll be
While you’re back here being sorry Mister Sorrow Man.
I’ll be tearing hell, I’ll be spitting on worlds,
I’ll be thumping giants, I’ll be thrashing Olympus
While you ferment among bottles of tears
Between damp walls of blindness and decay.

I ain’t scared no more, Mister Sorrow Man.
Let my mocha woman touch me, let the dance
Coalesce into fiery shots, I’ll down them one and all;
There is no time for doubt,
Only for leaping.

So get your hands off me, Mister Sorrow Man,
I’ll claw my way free from your crying tyranny.
I got songs to roar and blood to beat.
I won’t see you again before I die,
Mister Sorrow Man, but I hope you get to heaven, somehow.
Remember, though, doubt won’t get you there.
Only leaping.