[Intro: kick drum, synth strings] [Spoken: warm male voice, reading a letter] Dear Birdie. Well I am here and it is hot. The city sits where the two Niles come together, the White and the Blue. They are not white or blue. They are brown and browner. [Vocoder] Tell her the old man says hello. [Spoken] He was waiting in Cairo. At the gate. He said, "You look like hell." I said, "You look older than God." And we sat down by the window and drank it, and that was it. [Instrumental break] [Spoken] There is a hole drilled in the side of the sign, in the O in PUMP. Sarge says the most dangerous men he ever met all looked like they sold carpets. [Vocoder] Tell her the old man says hello. [Spoken] A sack, Birdie. The Jackal. Twenty years. In a canvas sack. [Instrumental break: strings rise] [Spoken, slower] We sat on the roof of the house that night. He said, "It doesn't feel like anything, does it." I said no. He said, "It never does. Not the ones that work." [Spoken, quieter] I showed him the picture of Danny. He said, "He's got your ears." I said, "He's got his mother's eyes." [Vocoder] Tell her the old man says hello. Tell her the old man says hello. [Outro: kick drum drops out, strings fade] [End]
