The Sounds of the Underground Page #5

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Like to hang out with you, but

if you're just like somebody like me,

you're a tramp. You're lazy.

You're

a schemer.

You know what I mean?

You're somebody's

husband, somebody's

father, you know what I mean?

(Traffic noises)

You're just a tramp.

A talented bum.

(Traffic noises)

Being a rebel. I mean, being a

rebel is somebody that lives out of

context with everybody else and

everything that they do is not

desirable or scorned upon

and then if they hit on something that

they become famous for, then everything

they look like and act like and be like

becomes fad, and it becomes money.

(Traffic noises)

So, being a rebel is what?

(Guitar music)

I don't know.

(Guitar music)

I got the dimes. Right now, I'm

kind of

focused. I took a little break

for a while, but now I'm really

focused on a lot more on hooking

on street. To try to like, you know,

support myself.

(Train noises)

(Crowd chatter)

Um, you know sometimes you have

good nights.

Sometimes you have bad nights.

Sometimes, I don't know. I see

a couple

of twenties in here. So maybe

it's not all that bad, but

on a good night, I might fill this up

to here where it doesn't even close.

And on a bad night, I don't know,

let's see, am I going to make it half full?

I don't know. (Laughs) I try not to

dwell on that because you're always

going to have one or two people

that don't get it, but then again,

songwriting is a very- and performance

and music, is such a subjective

thing. It's art. So if you go

to a gallery, no two people

are going to like the same painting.

So, I try not to take it

personally. I try not to let that

effect. I do what I do and hope

that

I reach a reasonable cross section

or the majority of the people

and that they do like it.

Um, and I think that I've

had reasonable success and

proof to know that that's so,

but yeah, there's always gonna

be people that don't like it and

I try to not let the whole oh

well maybe if I

did this way or did it that way,

or changed this. I used to think

that and I used to dwell on the

under appreciation factor, but I think

when you turn it around and

look at the positive aspects of it,

it changes your life. It changes

why you do what you do and it makes

performance so much more enjoyable.

(Train noises)

Where do I see myself in five

years? In a mansion.

(Cough) Yeah.

Oh yeah.

And without any strings

attached, you know. No contracts.

(Cough)

Just playing

and getting paid.

(Crowd chatter)

(Train sounds)

Right now, my living conditions

are very, very

depleted.

(Train sounds)

(Mellow music)

Twenty days

twenty nights. Who can count

them

Your smoking lips crave mine

I'm rolling

in this sweaty seat

a thousand miles from your

smile. You have to be

a fool.

darling not to know

You have to be a fool

(Mellow music)

to think that ain't trouble

Oh no. You have to be a

fool

darling, not to know

what a trouble you

I'm

combustible

Oh, darling, don't ya

Hey. You

have to be a fool

Darling not to know

Mmmm. You have to be

a fool

to think this ain't trouble

You have to be a

fool.

Oh no. Darling not to know

Mmmm. One look from

you

I'm combustible.

Oh, yeah

Don't you know that you do

this to me? Oh

from that old cover

keeping the lid on tight so it

don't blow.

When it's smoldering

got to wonder if there's a

fire

where there's

ash and smoke.

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