Salty Tears - Shawn Phillips

Salty tears from a lady with electric knees

Seven years I’ve been smoking that anti-freeze

Silly fears and I never even held the keys

Won’t you please take another look

Are you going to the marketplace

Read another book

Learn the rules of the human race

Try to learn to cook

'Cause there isn’t time to see the face

Wrapped in silk and lace

Paper men pentagon hives

Paper men polluting our lives

Paper men telling their lies

Start another war

And you’ll find it very hard to copy

Spring it on the poor

And you’re acting like another Pope

Well they won’t take any more

But they’ll give another length of rope

It’s our only hope

Flying like a bird

In the open sky of fantasy

Listen to the word

Before you reach a state of entropy

Well it really is absurd

For a man to think he isn’t free

The key is me

Laced lady take another mountain

Laced lady climb another mountain

Laced lady what do you see

Laced lady now you are free