10000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac Lyrics
[ robert buck/natalie merchant ]Hey jack kerouac, I think of your motherAnd the tears she cried, she cried for none otherThan her little boy lost in our little world that hatedAnd that dared to drag him down. her little boy courageousWho chose his words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood.Hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts,They all spoke through you.Hey jack, now for the tricky part,When you were the brightest star who were the shadows?Of the san francisco beat boys you were the favorite.Now they sit and rattle their bones and think of their blood stoned days.You chose your words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood.The hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts,Nights in chinatown howling at night.Allen baby, why so jaded?Have the boys all grown up and their beauty faded?Billy, what a saint theyve made you,Just like mary down in mexico on all souls day.You chose your words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood.Cool junk booting madmen, street minded girlsIn harlem howling at night.What a tear stained shock of the world,Youve gone away without saying goodbye.
