作曲 : Christine Frances Quinlan
Mother once, I awoke as an old man
my name was Stanley Forbes
and I threw tin cans at everyone who passed my porch
I don't know why I did but I didn't throw them at the kids so I was a good guy
I remember yellin' hi
Too loo rye
It's the day before I die
So why
Too loo rye
Cause everybody is walking by? oh hi
Too loo rye
Its the day before I die
And I wanna sigh and cry
Alongside my brothers
Mother once I awoke,
as a squirrel and I jumped from tree to tree to tree to tree,
it was me at the acme of my career
I saved all I caught that year, which is a lot of acorns let me tell you
I was very resourceful and I cried
Too loo rye
This is how it feels to fly so high
Too loo rye
This ain't nothing cash could buy oh hi
Too loo rye
Tomorrow I could die
So I'm gonna climb the pines and have myself a time
Mother I dreamt I died last night
see I was a lightbulb, left on a little too long and I burned till I was dead
with a hundred good ideas in my head
but I forgot 'em all and they tried to throw me away
but hey when they grabbed a hold of me
they all would burn their hands and see that I was still quite hot with thought
and so a little thought they got
that they should keep me as a kind of warmth you can't get from a stove or hearth
so I sought and thought and fought but then cooled down and said
Oh hi
Too loo rye
To think I had a light inside when I try
Too loo rye
To remember what I wanted to find so sigh
Too loo rye
I thought that I had died
But I think tonight I've got it right
I'm Stanley and the squirrel the invisible light
I'm a lover liar, humble fire
I'm a little spider and a chicken on the wire
climbin' tryin' sighin' cryin' laughin' highfivin' slowly dyin'
But I swear now that's alright
yeah I swear now that's alright
mother I'm alright