Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne Lyrics
While the music played you worked by candlelightThose san francisco nightsYou were the best in townJust by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearlYou turned it on the worldThats when you turned the world aroundDid you feel like jesusDid you realizeThat you were a champion in their eyesOn the hill the stuff was laced with keroseneBut yours was kitchen cleanEveryone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor homeEvery a-frame had your number on the wallYou must have had it allYoud go to l.a. on a dareAnd youd go it aloneCould you live foreverCould you see the dayCould you feel your whole world fall apart and fade awayChorus:Get along, get along kid charlemagneGet along kid charlemagneNow your patrons have all left you in the redYour low rent friends are deadThis life can be very strangeAll those dayglow freaks who used to paint the faceTheyve joined the human raceSome things will never changeSon you were mistakenYou are obsoleteLook at all the white men on the streetChorusClean this mess up else well all end up in jailThose test tubes and the scaleJust get them all out of hereIs there gas in the carYes, theres gas in the carI think the people down the hallKnow who you areCareful what you carrycause the man is wiseYou are still an outlaw in their eyesChorus
