Like Down on Me

She takes her face off

And she puts it in a row

Upon the shelf

It's where she keeps the bottles

Of the essence of herself

She takes them down

And shakes them

When she find herself in deep despair

The the voodoo of the suburbs

Comes around

And fixes up her hair. Yep

Like down on me

She keeps a raven in the hole of her guitar

And when she feeds him then plays a sad song

That would melt the coldest heart

Sometimes she strums the strings with it

And the it bites her fingers

And it sucks the blood from off the strings

Before it disappears again. Yep

Like down on me

5 seconds later

Int the out-of-work elevator

She calls room service for some air

They pump it in, but it's not fair

With bell-boys, bell-hops call 'em what you like to

But they're gasping for a lungful which they feel they have right to

You could tell by the light as it flickered off/on

It was a major-like emergency with all the knobs on

Call a paramedic with a first-aid kit

And a third class barin and for God's sake be quick

And just as everybody starts to hyperventilatin'

The whole thing starts to shake and resume its elevatin'. Yep

Later on that evening

When the snow had fallen

The girls were calling

She slips on her raincoat

Of the finest woven green tarpaulin

She puts a bunch of worms into the hole of her guitar

For the raven if he needs to eat they're going pretty far

And just before she packs it in its plastic case carry

He pokes his battered beak out and drops

The diamond necklace

He'd stolen just the day before from the jar

Which hold her neck and face like a jewelled star

Stop that, she said look at what you've done

But it played a pretty song 'cos it was overcome

By the light of the moon and the way it shone

As it glittered on the E-string whick was highly strung

So they make it, wading through the melting ice

When they got there, it's hot there everybody was nice

She told a stupid joke and she felt like a fool

And they said how's the bird and from its hole it said I'm cool. Yep