ODE TO CHARLIE

He’s a crossfire pinball wizard

no reason to get excited

You ain’t going nowhere

Until we kiss the sky

He’s been away

While the joker plays

A hurricane phony

Just got back today

A bustle in your muffin

better to burn out

than it is to rust

After the Beatlemania

Has bitten the dust

I see a little silhouetto of a man

As I get myself a beer

Staring out at the bleakness

Of the valley of fear

An exit ramp

to the Hollywood Bowl

Rock and Roll never land

Take my hand

A mighty long way down

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