Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer Lyrics - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - Silver Jews

Aloysius was a bluegrass drummer 

He was just a normal kid 

Blooming, tripping flowing under 

Just as I once did 

At a 24 hour restaurant 

Open to the end of time 

He was washing dishes there 

When he met brick butterfly 

She was a no age singer for a country act 

Working at a region ten 

She was all strung out on hard street fat 

But he didn't know it then 

First a look then a spark 

Sound of Velcro in the dark 

His heart is spinning like a bicycle wheel 

She and he laid the stems down flat 

In the middle of a field 

Brick butterfly had a history 

of sleeping with the kitchen staff 

She was a hardcore gobbler 

and longtime guzzler of hydrogenated crap 

Suet, tallow, liquid squeals 

great mounds of plastic lard 

That's what she got the lad to steal 

on the night that he got fired 

Aloysius woke at five am 

the hungry girl was gone 

There was blood in the bedding 

forks in the ceiling 

And bones all over the lawn 

Like any strong young poet would 

He packed his bags for region ten 

I guess now I know him less than I ever knew him then 

Yes I guess I know him even less than I ever knew him then