Westbound Bart (Live)

Oh the Westbound Bart dove underwater and
My ears popped and your eyes watered
And the mascara ran down your face
And you looked at me from three rows away
As if to say, please stop staring at me
And so I did

And you got off at 16th and Mission
And I did too
I didn't want it to seem like I was following you
It was just the same stop that I was getting off too
I swear

And you walked on down the street
And I walked behind
But you kept on making the same turns
That I was gonna make
Til finally you stepped in
To the same bar that I was going to

And it was Tuesday night Karaoke
And I sang Lay, Lady, Lay
With the funny voice and all
And you sang Bohemian Rhapsody
And everybody sang along
Especially on that part
That says I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

And when you were done
And the crowd around you dispersed
I went up to tell you
Just what a great job you had done

You said I wonder if when Freddie Mercury
Wrote bohemian rhapsody
If he knew it was going to be
The ultimate song for Karaoke
And I said, What about American Pie?
And you said
Fuck American Pie
Our generation cannot identify with
Drove my Chevy to levee
It ain't nothin' when compared to
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

You said well that was a great version of Lay, Lady, Lay
With the funny voice and all
Back from Bob Dylan's Nashville skyline days if I do recall

I said yea
I don't normally do this karaoke thing
But if I do I either sing that song
Or everybody must get stoned
Rainy day women number 12 and 35
(Technically that's what that songs called
I don't know if you knew)

And you said yeah what's with that song title
What's with the twelve and thirty-five
I said well twelve times thirty-five
Is four hundred and twenty
And you know what they say about four twenty
But maybe that's just the math major in me talkin'
I don't know what it means
It just does

But girl you know
I used to roam around
Play my own guitar
And sing my own songs
But it's been a while since I've been on the road

You see I lost my muse
And I have not written a song
In about a year or so
I'm taking a little break
My friends call it retirement I don't know

But just today
The most amazing thing happened
I saw something beautiful
And I felt a spark
Of a brand new song
That I have not felt in so long
And you said sing it to me

I said it's not ready to sing
Because all I have is the very first line
You said if you don't sing me that first line now
There will never be a second line
Give me what you got boy or else go home
I said okay
Here goes

Oh the Westbound Bart dove underwater and
My ears popped and your eyes watered
And the mascara ran down your face