Well I am right back where I was yesterday And the day before, and the day that on a high barstool Holding my dreams up to the of Jazz music I live uptown, where? I dont know Im downtown And it I'm always with the blues I talk to myself in public places and hum Jazz I Jazz But soon I make it uptown To old furnished room of mine I guess thats why I stall so long But I like the Cafe bars here Especially the ones across the street from I wanted to be on the stage 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 fifteen cents me and starvation I'll hafta walk all the way uptown Cause I'm playin music again You see.....I Jazz music
Doo do do dooooo (slow & sad trumpet) da da di dooooo........Daaaaaaaaaaa!
Thats music boy But it aint "really" It aint like in magazines Its beautiful.....its terribly man Say...like a woman you might of been with last Or say maybe an ago
Dooo da da di doooo ( Sad trumpet again) Doooo da da dee da!
Sad Sorta reminds me of that old I live in My room,...... out over lonely waters
Dooo dee dee da dooo( Trumpet picks up, cymbals & start walking faster and faster louder and louder)
Now this!
( crash)
Dig! ( whole band comes in now 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 It's night time in the I sure wish I could just 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 company man, no man my machine 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 about rent) "Why dont please stop that noise" ( pots, pans and cans crashing now) "Please stop all the confusion" (Landlady,Bob, and the still being loud) "Please just let me be cool man!!!" ( is unbearable now) "Please get away my door!!!" (oh s***, gonna snap,,,any minute!!) "Will you please go!!!" (Noise to recede...slowly) "I just want to be man" ( finally quiet...again...fer now)
Man you oughta see this old of mine Every morning I up and look around me And I thinkin I must've died a hundred years the night And I about that jack, yes I wonder Like how I ever got Because I dont have any plans of dying fast
I I'm the only man in the world who wakes up too Jazz music in the morning I guess, i cant say why I guess I it solemn... a hymn Ya know I had to prove that to my when I was living back home I'd up to them sounds Mom dig, she just didnt go for it Bird, Miles, Max... she just see it Morning, afternoon, night or That is until I played her monk one night,late Midnight I played her some that is Now Mom many of her nights in tunisia
(Trumpet in again,un-muted, soaring and somber yet still swinging...slow)
( Now a sax comes in and starts conversating a muted trumpet)
(Now everyone to walk and swing)
(Slow muted trumpets pauses all, says a few here and there,no one listens)
Yeah! in the morning time, late in the night time I'm with the Sometimes Im and having myself a ball And thats why Bob keeps telling the blues aint all up there in my old But it dances and struts like a woman Skips and hops like children ball and maybe why I always manage to change once in a while with the blues And wether I like it or not I love the idea of But its tough man And I dont mean tough like when Miles is grooving with his I mean tough like when I cant make that morning When I'm ducking the When I have is in hock Like when I think of all the places I havent And wont ever get there But I think maybe I Yes, thats the way I Like the song The sun will shine thru my back door All the way to the bottom of my stomach and back up again Yes thats the way I
Doo da da da deeeeee ( slow trumpet again...sad) da da da dee daaaa
man But not "real" like a woman A real