Old Friend

By Alex Ebert

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Mr. Magoo, he took off with Betty

And I'm on the porch carrying wood

My heart is confetti

I'm having a party

I'm feeling good

You say you're comin' to crush my skull

To bash in my face, and shatter my frown

To mingle my blood in with the ground

All this as the sun was setting down

Old friend, trying to hunt me down again

Old friend this is your exit, you're no, no no friend

Who is this man, who's afraid of death

Who fears it so that death's all he brings

I s'pose he'll wage war till nothing is left

With a mouth full of teeth and nothing to sing

Well he put his hands around my neck

And I s'pose I let him from natural respect

And he frothed at the mouth, I twinkled my eye

And gave him this vision just before I died

He saw his lines drawn in the sand

Upon a land of beauty and wind

And he in the distance dragging a flag pole

Across a desert that never will end

Old friend, trying to hunt me down again

Old friend this is your exit, you're no no no friend