I was walkin' 'round the town and down the streets of LA
got my bud with me, the alley meet, an early morning
no one awake

in the black and blue's a golden goose or fruits to juice
but snooze and you'll lose on so pop the top with the lid on
watch for cops as you get on with your way

tantalizing tangerines, soothing strawberries
cancer or cabbage, ginger ginseng
joycean jingles jangle relay
reading reviewing reducing replay

all these things, they're falling down someday
they'll be a mound someday
"Gone, but not forgotten" -- for now
they are tall they are
they're falling hard they are
there'll be a long tomorrow
is just a rest away
and we'll throw the rest of it all away

back in town, riding bus down
earth's gown is like a dirty carpet
seeing green is like drinking tea hot high in the arctic
pastures of people pretending to play
purely a parody, just pretty person's pain

all these things, they're falling down someday
they'll be a mound someday
"Gone, but not forgotten" -- for now
for now they are tall they are
they're falling hard they are
there'll be a long tomorrow
is just a rest away
and we'll throw the rest of it all away