Follow That Man - Boz Scaggs

You take one part Buddha

And two parts cat

Run them through your computer

And that’s where he’s at

Some say he’s ruthless

And some say he’s a saint

They tell you he’s innocent

I tell you he ain’t

I hear him think

I follow his flight

I’d know that footstep

In the darkest of nights

I follow that man

He’s a creature of stealth

Don’t run with the mob

Won’t stop at nothing

Till he finishes the job

I hear him out there laughing

When he knows I’m closing in

I feel the desperation

Of the fool within

He’s like your shadow

You can stop it dead

But when you go to take him

He’s a step ahead

I follow that man

(I follow from a distance

As he appears

Between the darkness and the light

Meeted curtains part

He takes a drink

He takes a smoke

Takes a paper

He takes me along for the ride

I snatch his bag

We go deeper

Into the quarter

Through a rain slaked dampness into an alley

The smell of garbage and perfume

Brick by brick

His woman meets me

But it doesn’t matter

Anyway, whose chasing who

I’m just holding the bag)

I hear him out there laughing

When he knows I’m closing in

I feel the desperation

I hear him think

I follow his flight

I’d know that footstep

In the darkest of nights

I follow that man

I follow that man

I watch him smoke

I watch him drink

I follow that man

I follow that man