there's a drizzle down the plateglass as a neon swizzle stick stirrin up the night air and a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue moon maverick across an obsidian sky as the go groanin' and wheezin', down on the corner I'm on a restless boulevard at a midnight I'm town from EASY STREET with the tight knots of and out of towners on the and the buildings high above lit dominoes or black dice all the car salesmen dressed up in Checkerboard slacks and Grant wrap-around, pacing in of EARL SCHLEIB $39.95 barkers at a shootin' gallery they throw out kind of a Guinan routine "Hello sucker, we like money just as well as else's here" or they give you the P.T. bit "There's a sucker every minute you just happened to be comin' at the right time" come over now you know... all the sailors are on the stroll in a of "LIKE NEW," "NEW PAINT," decent factory air and AM-FM and the piss gypsy cabs stacked up in the taxi zones like pinball to be ticking off a joy ride to a place waitin' in like "truckers welcome" diners with dirt full of Peterbilts, Kenworths, and the like, and they're hiballin' bankrupt brakes, over driven under paid, over fed, a day late and a dollar but Christ I got my around a bottle and my foot on the throttle and I'm standin' on the standin' on the like a "just in town" jasper, on a street corner with a lookin ' for some of Cheshire billboard grin stroking a chin, and using parking meters as walking sticks on the inebriated with my eyelids propped open at mast but you know... over at Chubb's Hall and Snooker it was a nickle two, yea it was a nickle after two and in the cobalt blue dream smoke, it was the that groaned out the hit parade and the squeaked, the floorboards creaked and an sign winked through a torn yellow shade, old Jack himself leanin' up against a Wurlitzer and out a 5 ball combination shot impossible you say? ...hard to believe?, out of the of possibility? naaaa he be stretchin' out long tawny out across a cool green felt with a golden gate and a full table railshot that's no and I leaned up my bannister and wandered over to the Wurlitzer and I punched A-2 I was for like Wine, Wine, Wine by the Night Caps starring Chuck E. or High Blood Pressure by George (cryin' in the streets) - no dice "that's life," that's what all the people say ridin' in April, seriously shot in May, but I know I'm gonna change that tune I'm standing underneath a buttery moon all melted off to one side It was just about that time the sun came yellow out of a manhole at the foot of 23rd and a dracula moon in a disguise was making its way to its pre-paid at the St. Moritz Hotel (scat) and the El train came tumbling across the trestles and it the ghost of Gene Krupa with an cam and glasspacks and the whispering brushes of wet on a wet and there's a traffic jam on Belmont tonight and the rhapsody of the evening, I up against my and I've been looking for kind of an emotional investment with dividends kind of a physical is as I attempt to all my missed payments, into payment through the with romantic residuals and leg but the chances are more than likely probably be held over for smashed weekend