Here's Looking at You, Kid

You can tell Gale if she calls

that I'm famous now for all of these rock and roll songs.

And even if that's a lie

She should've given me a try.

When we were kids on the field, it was the first day of school, I would've been her fool.

And I would've sang out your name in those old high school halls.

You tell that to Gale if she calls.

And you can tell Jane if she writes

that I'm drunk off all these stars and all these crazy Hollywood nights.

And that's told her to see

But she should've married me.

And the terror I spent every night of my youth on the floor.

Bleedin' out from all these wounds

And I would've gotten her a ride out of that town she despised.

You tell that to Janie if she writes.

But boys will be be boys

And girls have those eyes that'll cut you to ribbons sometimes.

And all you can do is just wait by the moon

and bleed if it's what she says you ought to do.

You remind Nana if she asks why

that a theif stole my heart while she was makin' up her mind.

Heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool

and goes crazy over that New York scene on seventh avenue.

But I always used to wait at the diner a million nights without her

prayin' she won't cancel again tonight.

And the waiter served my coffee with a constellation side.

You remind Nana if she asks why.

Tell her it's alright.

I know it's hard to tell you this.

It's hard to tell you this.

Here's lookin' at you, kid.