DOGTOWN ( Intro ) I remember when I was four years old Listening to "Running Bear" Shiny black spinnin' forty five Dad runs fingers through my soft plume of hair Little White Dove outta reach Long way off from Running Bear 'Cross a wild wide raging river The churnin' hard river of deep despair A Dogtown river of deep despair ( Verse 1 ) This sleet's as dirty As Popeye's Cajun rice This part of Missouri's Our new paradise Tin ceiling train rattles B-Flat blues harp on the table "Best of Curly Howard Or our own Betty Grable?" Dogtown Pizzas Stuff Our kick start deep freeze 'Least we won on a game show Rusted twin Sable Mercuries Should'a seen 'em gleam down Tamm Avenue Say twenty years ago Near up front in the St. Patty's Parade 'Neath gentle macflurries of late winter snow Now Colette has took a detour Not quite yet a fall Yesterday during a game of Jenga Flung the wooden blocks against the wall Used to dance 'cross the floors Then then rooves inside her eyes To Captain Fantastic "A once upon a time." ( Chorus ) Could soon be bye bye Dogtown Dogtown bye bye If this wife of mine don't look me in the eye Grab my blue tick hound Mr. Gable I'll even hit the road In the world's ugliest Sable till the motor explodes! Bye bye Colette Colette bye bye You never should'a lied I Never should have tried To hide mine ( Bridge ) Things didn't use to roll this way Not a hint of trouble all those years Now I'll take you back to twenty - o - four With two connoisseurs of Scorsese And St. Louis Fitz's root beers ( Verse 2 ) I met her at the Oscar night party In shadows the Gateway Arch threw In front of Hi-Pointe's vintage box office She had on two different colored shoes We went alone so we sat together I caught her gulping down a swell of tears When Zellweger accepted her award Sure lit up Cold Mountain that year These days we don't go to movies Just stumblin' in our own eyes Mister ya never seen nothin' like us Both patchworks of pettiness and lies She orders Brisket Dips from Stone Turtle She's got fidgety new strangers in our house Now back to pizza she's split like Sybil Silence of the Lambs straight to Mighty Mouse ( Repeat Chorus ) ( Verse 3 ) Colette and me lately Just gettin' on fairly thin She's been selling handguns At Raven's Watch Pawn n Gin Checking no one's history Not a single soul struttin' in All under the radar "Now give that bad boy a spin." Whether born on Fifth Avenue Or a one way dead end street Like from last night's haunted dream I'm trapped with numbered anvils for my feet You ain't goin' nowhere If the sky they left you then Got held up with broken horizons Bleeding mortally from each end ( Repeat Chorus ) JOHN WILLIAM SAND
