a man walks down the street
he says why am i soft in the middle now
why am i soft in the middle
the rest of my life is so hard
i need a photoopportunity
i want a shot at redemption
don’t want to end up a cartoon
in a cartoon graveyard
bonedigger bonedigger
dogs in the moonlight
far away in my welllit door
mr beerbelly beerbelly
get these mutts away from me
you know i don’t find this stuff amusing anymore
if you’ll be my bodyguard
i can be your long lost pal
i can call you betty
and betty when you call me you can call me al
a man walks down the street
he says why am i short of attention
got a short little span of attention
and whoa my nights are so long
where’s my wife and family
what if i die here
who’ll be my role model
now that my role model is gone gone
he ducked back down the alley
with some rolypoly little batfaced girl
all along along
there were incidents and accidents
there were hints and allegations
if you’ll be my bodyguard
i can be your long lost pal
i can call you betty
and betty when you call me you can call me al
call me al
interlude
a man walks down the street
it’s a street in a strange world
maybe it’s the third world
maybe it’s his first time around
doesn’t speak the language
he holds no currency
he is a foreign man
he is surrounded by the sound the sound
cattle in the marketplace
scatterlings and orphanages
he looks around around
he sees angels in the architecture
spinning in infinity
he says amen and hallelujah
if you’ll be my bodyguard
i can be your long lost pal
i can call you betty
and betty when you call me you can call me al
call me
na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na nana nana
na na na na nana nana na na
na na na na na na na na
if you’ll be my bodyguard
i can call you betty
if you’ll be my bodyguard
i can call you betty
if you’ll be my bodyguard
Artist: Paul Simon
Year: 1986
Decade: 80s
Language: en
Word Count: 188