[ti:You Can Call Me Al]
[ar:Paul Simon]
[by:mp3.5nd]
[00:00.00]mp3.5nd
[00:14.00]A man walks down the street
[00:16.00]He says why am I soft in the middle now
[00:18.00]Why am I soft in the middle
[00:20.00]The rest of my life is so hard
[00:22.00]I need a photo-opportunity
[00:23.00]I want a shot at redemption
[00:25.00]Don't want to end up a cartoon
[00:27.00]In a cartoon graveyard
[00:29.00]Bonedigger Bonedigger
[00:31.00]Dogs in the moonlight
[00:33.00]Far away my well-lit door
[00:36.00]Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
[00:38.00]Get these mutts away from me
[00:40.00]You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
[00:44.00]If you'll be my bodyguard
[00:46.00]I can be your long lost pal
[00:51.00]I can call you Betty
[00:53.00]And Betty when you call me
[00:55.00]You can call me Al
[00:59.00]A man walks down the street
[01:01.00]He says why am I short of attention
[01:03.00]Got a short little span of attention
[01:04.00]And wo mv nights are so long
[01:06.00]Where's my wife and family
[01:09.00]What if I die here
[01:10.00]Who'll be my role-model
[01:13.00]Now that my role-model is
[01:14.00]Gone Gone
[01:16.00]He ducked back down the alley
[01:17.00]With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
[01:20.00]All along along
[01:24.00]There were incidents and accidents
[01:25.00]There were hints and allegations
[01:29.00]If you'll be my bodyguard
[01:31.00]I can be your long lost pal
[01:36.00]I can call you Betty
[01:38.00]And Betty when you call me
[01:40.00]You can call me Al
[01:43.00]Call me Al
[02:29.00]A man walks down the street
[02:31.00]It's a street in a strange world
[02:33.00]Maybe it's the Third World
[02:35.00]Maybe it's his first time around
[02:37.00]He doesn't speak the language
[02:38.00]He holds no currency
[02:40.00]He is a foreign man
[02:42.00]He is surrounded by the sound
[02:45.00]The sound
[02:46.00]Cattle in the marketplace
[02:48.00]Scatterlings and orphanages
[02:50.00]He looks around, around
[02:53.00]He sees angels in the architecture
[02:56.00]Spinning in infinity
[02:57.00]He says Amen! and Halleluiah!
[04:19.00][04:03.00][02:59.00]If you'll be my bodyguard
[03:01.00]I can be your long lost pal
[04:26.00][04:10.00][03:06.00]I can call vou Betty
[03:08.00]And Betty when you call me
[03:12.00]You can call me Al5nd