Walkin’ in Auckland

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Some hotel, Auckland, room 1028 Got in late last night, Ben and I went to some Turkish place And around 2 o clock in the morning, we ordered pizza to go And some bottled wine, the guys said it was the best sparkling water in the world I said, "Really? How's that?" He said "At the bottom of the bottle is a [?}" I said, "Well then friend, consider it sold." The music was so pulsating and loud, I couldn't think I walked to the bathroom and there was vomit in the sinks And tissues with blood and plastic cups all over the floor And when I came back to meet Ben Young people were gathered around tables and smokin' hookahs Or dancing on the dance floor And in that moment, I felt so old A girl near the bar was by herself gyrating While the people there smoking were yelling at each other across the tables aggressively communicating Ben and I just sat there in a daze waiting for our pizzas just yawning and gazing I got back to my room and ate my entire pizza and didn't fall asleep until maybe 4 o clock in the morning I was up emailing Woke up at 7:30 and went down to the lobby The girl in the breakfast room could sense my weariness and she went and politely got me a banana and an orange and a yogurt and green tea I didn't feel like sitting down in the breakfast area There were too many people and it was so noisy and cluttery I told her thank you and I started walking to my room to eat my breakfast in privacy I had my slippers on, my hands were full, I was feeling so out of it I was walking back to the elevator when the front desk guy got in my face Started giving me shit about spilling water all over the place I said, "What water? Show me where its wet on the floor?" He said, "There is water everywhere, let me have one of my staff members bring your things up to you. Please sir, you are spilling water all over the place." I said, "In your disgruntled dreams maybe but okay." "And hurry it up because I want to get back to sleep soon, fuckface." I went back to sleep and I woke up at noon I needed to find a new computer bad and a disposable camera too I went down to the lobby and asked a doorman for directions When Ben suddenly appeared beside me And at that point I stopped asking the doorman questions Ben said that he had some of his own shopping to do He needed a thumb-drive and a swimming suit Because he's going to spend some time in Christchurch or Churchchrist, or whatever its called With his girlfriend, when the tour is over So we got to walking and we did our shopping together We started out at some mall and then ended up at a place called Bear House And I gotta say I went nuts in there I bought some socks and some jockey type shirt that's not even my style And some new underwear And some new sweatpants For the gym which I'm too tired to even go to And yeah, I got a new computer bag too Its just so exciting to see things priced for 4 dollars How can you not go nuts? I wonder if everybody goes nuts in those places Everything's priced at 4 dollars During our shopping I took maybe 5 to 7 photos of Auckland payphones for the payphone book I've been working on I might have a whole section dedicated to New Zealand payphones And we went and got some sushi and it tasted great The miso soup, the unsweetened green tea We were discussing what we knew about New Zealand and didn't come up with much Other than Neil Finn, Anna Paquin, Flight of the Conchords, Once Were Warriors And some other thing on TV, a series maybe? A show that was filmed here? One of those epic fantasy series maybe I can't think of the name of it And then we went on our separate ways so I could get more payphone shots I was sweating like crazy so I sat down on a bench and realized that I was lost When a little sparrow flew over to say hi to me I took his photo, a lot of them, actually That sparrow was on an ego trip He was striking all kind of poses, completely in love with himself It was the Bradley Cooper of sparrows When I found my way back to the hotel I was so tired I only shadowboxed one three minute round With two bottles of 750 millilitre New Zealand spring water, called "Pump" And I organized my receipts from the Australian part of the tour And two shows left tonight in Auckland And tomorrow in Wellington It was nice getting out today and walking Everyone in Auckland seemed so alive out there walking And the sun was shining Its been so nice walking today in Auckland I look forward to singing tonight and talking In Auckland I emailed Neil Finn to see if he wanted to join us on stage like he did last time He said I'm so sorry Mark, I'd love to join you but I'm on tour with Fleetwood Mac