Well here I am back where I was yesterday And the day before, and the day before Sitting on a high Holding my dreams up to the sound of Jazz I live uptown, where? I dont exactly Im downtown And it seems I'm always the blues I talk to in public places and hum Jazz tunes I love But soon I hafta it uptown To that old furnished room of I guess thats why I stall so downtown But I like the bars down here Especially the ones the street from theartres I once wanted to be on the But is the closest I'll ever get to one I afford a seat next to the ceiling That was music you heard blastin out Now I got cents between me and starvation I'll prolly walk all the way uptown I'm playin that music again You see.....I Jazz music
Doo do do dooooo (slow & sad trumpet) da da di dooooo........Daaaaaaaaaaa!
Thats music boy But it "really" pretty It aint girls in magazines Its beautiful.....its beautiful man Say...like a woman you might of with last night Or say maybe an ago
Dooo da da di doooo ( Sad muted again) Doooo da da dee da!
Sad Sorta reminds me of old building I live in My room,...... looking out lonely waters
Dooo dee dee da dooo( Trumpet picks up, & Bass start walking faster and faster louder and louder)
Now this!
( crash)
Dig! ( whole band in now with swing and gusto!)
dee dee ba da da doo da! dee dee be da da doo da!
( band on for a little while....free but together)
Now here I am standing in this old night time in the city I sure I could just relax and be cool But it's just like my says "Dont nuthin ya wish jack" Now here comes Bob with a mouth full of I know hes right here " Yeah I hear ya talkin Jim, no tonight man, no man my record is in the pawn shop, man stop talkin so loud, before you wake my lady up and she remebers I havent paid my rent in three weeks" "Oh man who cares" (yelling in the background) "Go man go!" (landlady starts in to yelling rent) "Why dont everbody please stop that noise" ( pots, pans and crashing now) "Please stop all the confusion" (Landlady,Bob, and the pots being loud) "Please let me be cool man!!!" ( Noise is unbearable now) "Please get from my door!!!" (oh s***, gonna snap,,,any minute!!) "Will you go!!!" (Noise starts to recede...slowly) "I just want to be man" ( finally quiet...again...fer now)
Man you oughta see this old room of Every I wake up and look around me And I keep I must've a hundred years during the night And I wonder about jack, yes I wonder how I ever got here Because I dont have any plans of that fast
I guess I'm the man in the world who wakes up too Jazz music in the morning I guess, i say exactly why I guess I it solemn... a hymn Ya I had to prove that to my mother when I was living back home I'd up to them sounds Mom didnt dig, she didnt go for it Bird, Miles, Max... she just see it Morning, afternoon, or anytime That is I played her some monk one night,late Round I played her some Thelonious is Now Mom spends many of her nights in
(Trumpet starts in again,un-muted, soaring and somber yet swinging...slow)
( Now a sax comes in and starts conversating a muted trumpet)
(Now everyone starts to and swing)
(Slow muted trumpets all, says a few things here and there,no one listens)
Yeah! Early in the time, late in the night time I'm the blues Im laughing and having myself a ball And thats why Bob keeps telling the aint all up there in my old room But sometimes it dances and struts a woman Skips and like children playing ball and thats why I always manage to change once in a while with the blues And wether I it or not I love the idea of living But sometymes its man And I dont mean like when Miles is grooving with his horn I mean tough like when I make that morning meal I'm ducking the landlady When everything I is in hock Like when I think of all the places I havent And ever likely get there But I think maybe I Yes, the way I think Like the says The sun will shine thru my back door All the way down to the bottom of my stomach and up again Yes thats the way I
Doo da da da ( slow muted trumpet again...sad) Deee da da da dee
man But not "real" Beautiful a woman A real