text: The rain
  Slammed hard
  As bars
  It caught me
  By surprise
  Mutt of the planet
  And
  Shook
  Me
  Down
  For alibis
  Im waiting
  For the keeper to release me
  Debating this sentence
  Biding my time
  In memories
  Of old friends of mine...
  In daydreams of Birdland
  I see my soul on fire
  Burning up the bandstand
  Next time
  Ill be bigger
  Ill be better than ever
  Ill be happily attached
  To my cold hard cash
  But now
  Manhattan holds me
  To a chair in the sky
  With the Bird in my ears
  And boats in my eyes
  Going
  By
  Theres things I wish Id done
  Old friends
  Im gonna miss
  Beautiful lovers
  I
  Never
  Got the chance
  To kiss...
  Daydreamin drugs the pain of living
  Processions of missing
  Lovers and friends
  Fade in
  And they fade out again
  In
  Daydreams of rebirth
  I see myself in style
  Raking in what Im worth
  Next time
  Ill be bigger
  Ill be better than ever
  Ill be resurrected royal
  Ill be rich as Standard Oil
  But now
  Manhattan holds me
  To a chair in the sky
  With the Bird in my ears
  And boats in my eyes
  Going by