I Walk with a Cane

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Started feeling sick around Spokane Checked in a motel and wept Kept having dreams about the scenes that I'd seen Kicked through the sheets while I slept The fourth morning surprised by the sunrise Blackouts edged by the blue Before I took my stuff up to the station I stuck a stone in my shoe To remind me of you Took the book from the bed stand Started reading wherever Daniel's still there in the lion's den Danny, you might be there forever I took my refuge in Bellevue With an angel that agreed I was blameless But I still have the marks from the teeth of the sharks That spring we spent completely painless Thought that maybe the service Would teach me how to save lives But mostly I learned how to buckle my buttons And how the difference between dead and alive Is just a look in your eye One glance at this bedding I could tell it knew struggle Sat at the table and took off my boots Tried to shake out the trouble Tried to shake out the trouble And I'm sorry about the way that it ended And I'm sorry that you never got famous You were one of many martyrs that never got credit For the spring we spent completely painless Daniel Green was a friend of mine I met him in a barroom in Venice Said he'd acted as a doctor in a show about a hospital Till the studio turned against him Drove up the coast in his Cutlass Said it was too hot in L.A We ran out of road up in Washington State He ran out of rope around May Dragged him into the bathtub Let loose the cold water On the way out the door I went through his pockets Mingled our money together Mingled our money together And I'm sorry that I left so abruptly And I'm sorry but I really had to run The paramedics usually know exactly what they're doing If there's something to be done And the stone in my shoe just reminds me We're all born with original sin And I'm limping up the street in Spokane towards the station Remembering him And the stone in my shoe just reminds me Daniel was a beautiful friend And it's really hard to walk when you're carrying this cross To remind you of your greatest sins I walk with a cane now I walk with a cane I keep a stone in my shoe to remind me of you And now I walk with a cane Now I walk with a cane