Shrinking Man - Ry Cooder

Well, it’s a change in the ocean, change in the sea

Woke up one morning was a change in me

I put on my pants, my pants fell down

Well, I put on my shoes and they fell off too

I looked in the mirror, was nothing to see

That’s how it goes when you’re a shrinking man like me

Worried man with a worried song

Shrinking man ain’t gonna be here long

Well, sometimes I worry 'bout clothes

'Cause a shrinking man’s got to look good sometime

Don’t need no sweatshop child

Puttin' shoes on my feet this time

Chained to a sewing machine

Down in hell where the sun don’t shine

Look as good as you can

But please don’t rob your fellow man

Shrinking man, shrinking man

Nobody was worried 'bout a shrinking man

Sometimes I worry 'bout food

'Cause a shrinking man’s got to eat right sometime

I don’t need much and I don’t pay

No starvation wage

To poor folks out on the poison ground

You don’t rob the land

When you’re just a little old shrinking man

Shrinking man, shrinking man

Nobody was worried 'bout a shrinking man

Worried man with a worried song

Shrinking man ain’t gonna be here long

Sometimes I worry bout prayer

'Cause a shrinking man better be a prayin' man

Once I had a dream that was working

I had good ideas, I made big plans

Now I’m just like a leaf in the wind that’s blowing

I hope King Jesus can understand

Shrinking man, shrinking man

Nobody was worried 'bout a shrinking man

Worried man with a worried song

Shrinking man ain’t gonna be here long