Crow Lyrics - Singles - Jim Carroll

It must be strange to just fall from the stage 

And snap a bone that is so close to the brain 

And be attended to by so many down below 

I saw a doctor tie you up from so far above 

And you start singing just like light through a black floor 

You start sliding like burned skin to a side door 

But Crow, when you throw yourself under 

Singing's hard when you can't lose control 

They don't know, to them in the dark you don't whisper nothing 

And they're all gonna try and rip the wind from your soul 

It must have been hard to be a cashier in a bookstore 

And to be surrounded by the history of your true loves 

And you'd get naked between deep shelves in the back room 

And have your brain get tan by sharp fluorescent light tubes 

And you start spinning like the pillars in the temple 

You'd start screaming just like Sister Aimee Semple 

But Crow, when you throw yourself under 

The streets are hard when you cannot lose control 

They don't know, to them in the dark don't whisper nothing 

And they're all gonna try and rip the wind from your soul Crow 

It was so sweet when you brought donuts to the junkies 

Hey, you'd give us something we'd go slip into our coffee 

And we'd start reading lines from poems that didn't matter 

You covered me with blankets in the Chelsea Hotel lobby 

And I'd start reaching for the scar along your belly 

They'd start taking us 'cause winning is their hobby 

But Crow, when you throw yourself under 

The streets are hard when you cannot lose control 

They don't know, to them in the dark don't whisper nothing 

And they're all gonna try and rip the wind from your soul Crow