Old Friend - Alex Ebert

Mr. Magoo, he took off with Betty

And I’m on the porch carryin' wood

My heart is confetti

I’m having a party, I’m feelin' good

You say you’re comin' to crush my skull

To bash in my face and shatter my frown

To mingle my blood in with the ground

All this as the sun was settin' down

Old friend

Tryin' to hunt me down again

Old friend

This is your exit, you’re no, no, no friend

Who is this man who’s afraid of death?

Who fears it so that death’s all he brings?

I suppose he’ll wage war 'til nothin' is left

With a mouth full of teeth and nothin' to sing

Well, he put his hands around my neck

And I suppose I let him from natural respect

And he frothed at the mouth, I twinkled my eye

And gave him this vision just before I died

He saw his lines drawn in the sand

Upon a land of beauty and wind

And he in the distance draggin' a flag pole

Across a desert that never will end

Old friend

Tryin' to hunt me down again

Old friend

This is your exit, you’re no, no, no friend