With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older - twenty-two, so I don't know why.īut I tripped the merry-go-round - that was my boardwalk life. Indians in the summer - that's my Little League team, the Indians.Įh, teenage diplomat, in the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat - that's self-explanatory. Madman drummers bummers - Mad Dog Vincent Lopez. You know, it seems like it demystifies the female. Uh, that's basically about sex, you know, that's basically madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer, you know, it, it's sexually imagery, but I think that one's pretty certain. Uh, I'll do Blinded By The Light, but it could get real scary. And, uh, I knew I was gonna have to go and, and, and uh, come up with something that was like, had to be noticed in some fashion, so I started just slinging the words around, you know? And, you can listen to it and say, what, what conceivably are those songs about, you know? I mean, what were you thinking? What is going through your mind? So, uh, I'll take you through it line-by-line a little bit, and uh, uh, and, and I'll give you a little idea kinda, uh, how it all played out for me. And uh, I was sitting in my little apartment over in A-Asbury Park and I said, well gee, I don't have the band, it's just me and the guitar.
Those songs, they were funny, they were always songs I thought would, would really date, and I, I end up going back to them just for the pure, uh, the, the joy that's in 'em, you know, and the happiness that's in 'em. It's funny, uh, this song, those were the songs that, uh, that I wrote when I had no audience, I had nothing to lose, and it sounds like it, you know, maybe I. I was blinded That explains why, uh, there were no psychedelics for me. Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun Well I unsnapped his skull cap, between his ears I saw a gap and figured he'd be all right Well, and some kidnapped handicap was complainin' that he caught the clap from some mousetrap he bought last night Yeah, and the avatar said, "Blow the bar but first remove the cookie jar we're gonna teach those boys to laugh too soon" Well now in Zanzibar a shootin' star was ridin' in a side car hummin' a lunar tune He said, "Take a right at the light, keep goin' straight until night, then, boys, you're on your own" Well, I jumped up, turned around, spit in the air, fell on the ground Oh, some hazard from Harvard was zonked on beer playin' backyard bombardierĪnd Scotland Yard was trying hard, they sent some dude with a calling card, said, "Do what you Yeah, and little Early-Pearly came by in her curly-wurly and she asked me if I need a ride Yeah, and Go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe to go outside Yeah, she said, "I'll turn you on sonny, to something strong if you'll play that song with the funky break" Some silicone sister with her manager's mister told me I got what it takes She got down, she never got tight, yeah, she's gonna make it alright Well, some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner all alone watchin' the young girls danceĪnd some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone to remind him of the feeling of romance
He says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, yeah, that's where they expect it least" Some brimstone baritone anti-cyclone rolling stone preacher from the east She got down but she never got tight, yeah, she's gonna make it alright Some bloodshot forget-me-not whispers, "Daddy's within earshot, save the buckshot, turn up the band"Ĭut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
Some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her handĪnd now young Shot with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot snappin' his fingers clappin' his hands Sit down there please. With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat