Songs for Drella Page #3

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I believe there's got to be some retribution

I believe there's got to be some restitution

I believe we are all the poorer for it now

Visit me

visit me

why didn't you visit me

NOBODY BUT YOU:

I really care a lot

although I look like I do not

Since I was shot

there's nobody but you

I know I look blase

party Andy's what the papers say

At dinner I'm the one who pays

for a nobody like you

nobody but you

nobody like you

Since I got shot

there's nobody but you

Won't you decorate my house

I'll sit there quiet as a mouse

You know me I like to look a lot

at nobody but you

I'll hold your hand and slap my face

I'll tickle you to your disgrace

Won't you put me in my proper place

- a nobody like you?

Sundays I pray a lot

I'd like to wind you up

and paint your clock

I want to be what I am not

- for a nobody like you

The bullet split my spleen and lung

the doctors said I was gone

Inside I've got some shattered bone

for nobody but you

I'm still not sure I didn't die

And if I'm dreaming

I still have bad pains inside

I know I'll never be a bride

to nobody like you

I wish I had a stronger chin

my skin was good, my nose was thin

This is no movie I'd ask to be in

with a nobody like you

all my life

- It's been nobodies like you

A DREAM:

It was a very cold clear fall night

I had a terrible dream

Billy Name and Brigid were

playing under my staircase

on the second floor about

two o'clock in the morning

I woke up because Amos and

Archie had started barking

That made me very angry because

I wasn't feeling well and I told them

I was very cross the real me

that they just better remember

what happened to Sam the Bad Cat

that was left at home and got sick

and went to p*ssy heaven

It was a very cold clear fall night

Some snowflakes were falling

gee it was so beautiful

and so I went to get my camera

to take some pictures

And then I was taking the pictures

but the exposure thing wasn't right

and I was going to call Fred or Gerry

to find out how to get it set

but oh it was too late

and then I remembered

they were still probably at dinner

and anyway I felt really bad

and didn't want to talk to anybody

but the snowflakes were

so beautiful and real looking

and I really wanted to hold them

And that's when I heard the voices

from down the hall near the stairs

So I got a flashlight

and I was scared

and I went out into the hallway

There's been all kinds of

trouble lately in the neighborhood

and someone's got to

bring home the bacon

and anyway there were

Brigid and Billy playing

And under the staircase

was a little meadow

sort of like the park at 23rd street

where all the young kids

go and play frisbee

gee that must be fun

maybe we should do an article

on that in the magazine

but they'll just tell me

I'm stupid and it won't sell

but I'll hold my ground this time

I mean it's my magazine, isn't it?

So I was thinking that

as the snowflakes fell

and I heard these voices

having so much fun

Gee it would be so great

to have some fun

So I called Billy, but

either he didn't hear me

or he didn't want to answer

which was so strange because

even if I don't like reunions

I've always loved Billy

I'm so glad he's working

I mean it's different than Ondine

He keeps touring with those movies

and he doesn't even

pay us and the film

I mean the film's just going

to disintegrate and then what

I mean he's so normal off of drugs

I just don't get it

And the I saw John Cale

And he's been looking really great

He's been coming by the office

to exercise with me

Ronnie said I have a muscle

but he's been really mean

since he went to AA

I mean what does it mean

when you give up drinking

and then you're still so mean

He says I'm being lazy but I'm not

I just can't find any ideas

I mean I'm just not,

let's face it,

going to get any ideas

up at the office

And seeing John made me

think of the Velvets

and I had been thinking

about them

when I was on St. Marks Place

going to that new gallery

those sweet new kids had opened

but they thought I was old

and then I saw the old Dom

the old club where we

did our first shows

It was so great

And I didn't understand about

that Velvet's first album

I mean, I did the cover

and I was the producer

and I always see it repackaged and

I've never gotten a penny from it

How could that be

I should call Henry,

but it was good seeing John,

I did a cover for him,

but I did it in black and white

and he changed it to color

It would have been worth

more if he'd left it my way

but you can never tell anybody anything,

I've learned that.

I tried calling again to Billy and John

but they wouldn't recognize me

it was like I wasn't there

Why won't they let me in?

And then I saw Lou

I'm so mad at him

Lou Reed got married

and didn't invite me

I mean is it because he thought

I'd bring to many people

I don't get it. He could

have at least called

I mean he's doing so great

Why doesn't he call me?

I saw him at the MTV show

and he was one row away

and didn't even say hello

I don't get it

You know I hate Lou I really do

He won't even hire us for his videos

And I was so proud of him

I was so scared today

There was blood leaking through my shirt

from those old scars from being shot

And the corset I wear

to keep my insides in, was hurting

And I did three sets of fifteen pushups

and four sets of ten situps

But then my insides hurt

and I saw drops of blood on my shirt

and I remember the doctors saying

I was dead

And then later they had to

take blood out of my hand

'cause they ran out of veins

but then all this thinking

was making me an old grouch

and you can't do anything anyway

so if they wouldn't let me

play with them in my own dream

I was just going to have to make up another

and another and another

Gee wouldn't it just be so funny

if I died in this dream

before I could make another one up.

And nobody called

and nobody came

FOREVER CHANGED:

Train entering the city

I lost myself

and never came back

Took a trip around the world

and never came back

Black silhouettes,

crisscrossed tracks

never came back

Forever changed

You might think I'm frivolous

uncaring and cold

You might think I'm frivolous

depends on your point of view

Society soiree

the gambles arranged,

the high and the low

I left my old life behind

and never turn back

Forever changed

Forever changed

Got to get to the city

to get a job

Got to get some work

to see me through

My old life is behind

I see it receding

My life's disappearing

disappearing from view

Hong Kong - and I was changed

Burma and Thailand

and I was changed

few good friends

to see me through

to see me through

Only art

can see me through

Only heart

can see me through

My life's disappearing from view

My old life disappearing from view

I was forever changed

HELLO IT'S ME

Andy, it's me

haven't seen you in a while

I wished I talked to you more

when you were alive

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