Talking World War III Blues

He said, "Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane"
"Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man"
Shotgun fired and away I ran
I think Abraham Lincoln said that
I don't blame 'em too much though
Wonderin' who turned the lights on us
I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue
Everybody's havin' them dreams
When I peeked out from a manhole cover
Well, I rung me fallout shelter bell
But mine was a little different you see
So I turned on my Conelrad
It was all over by quarter past
He said, "Tell me about it"
I seen a man, I said, "Howdy friend
Well, the whole thing started at 3 o'clock fast
I stood a-wonderin' which way to go
To see what kinda words he could say
I went to the doctor the very next day
Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown

Just to hear a voice of some kind

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
You see what happened last time they started"
He said, "It was a bad dream"
But I didn't pay my Con Ed bill

She said that for over an hour and I hung it up

They were my own dreams
Say, "Let's go and play Adam and Eve"
As I landed on the psychiatric couch

"Tell your ma, tell your pa
He screamed a bit and away he flew
Our loves are gonna grow ooh-wah, ooh-wah"
When she said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin'
Turned on my player

Half of the people can be part right all of the time
And they're only in my head
And there was nobody aroun'
So the radio didn't work so well
I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though
But all of the people can't be all right all of the time

I said, "Hold it, doc, a World War passed through my brain"
Good car to drive after a war
Thought I was a communist
It was rock-a-day, Johnny singin'
I lit a cigarette on a parkin' meter
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
I needed somebody to talk to
And up and down the lonesome town
He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch"

Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand
I didn't see you around"
Well, I remember seein' some ad
I got into the driver's seat

Sayin', "Hey, I've been havin' the same old dreams
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'
I was down in the sewer with some little lover
"When you hear the beep, it will be three o'clock"
Everybody sees themselves
And I drove down 42nd street, in my Cadillac

Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then
So I called up the operator of time
And I leaned my head and I gave a yell
Well, I spied me a girl and before she could leave
Walkin' around with no one else
I guess there's just us two"

Well, I got up and walked around

I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me
And walked on down the road, it was a normal day
Well, now time passed and now it seems
They didn't know me