Message in a bottle
Rhythm of a drum
Smoke signals and telegraphs
Make the airwaves hum
But that’s all ancient history
Like bongs and Lincoln Logs
Now we livin’ like the Jet sons
In a wacky wireless fog
Talkin’, squawkin’, hawkin’
Who knows if anybody’s gettin’ through
Toasters talk to crack berries
Boston to Bombay
Teenage schemes and mobile dreams
As minutes tick away
We act like crazy people
Talking [...]
They talk about their women too much
The women got ‘em so confused
They don’t talk about their lives as such
My life is all I got to lose
They take it with a grain of salt
And laugh at the complexities
They’re good at pickin’ all the faults
I keep laughin’ so they don’t pick me
Jesus, if I had to quit [...]
If I’m over the moon, it’s because I’m over you
A day at a time and I’m tickety boo
I don’t carry on the way I used to
Whoop de doo, whoop de doo
If I’m doing great, it’s because when I get home
I don’t go straight to my answer phone
And the tears don’t come the way they used [...]
Now they make new movies in old black and white
With happy endings, where nobody fights
So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
Honey, jump right up and show your age
I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The Boston Blackie kind
A two toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine
I remember bein’ buck-toothed and [...]
Island, I see you in the distance
I feel that your existence
Is not unlike my own
Island, they say no man is like you
They say you stand alone
Sometimes I feel that way too
It’s the need for love
Heart and soul accompaniment
Seems to make me different from you
Well, I tried to book passage but you have no ports
And I [...]