It's James Now

Well, double R.J is older now
He stays up watching the night snow fall
Black bound book on the table
Dusty beside card tricks and games
Yeah, one by one he cuts the names
From the back of the daily news
Laying side by side they make quite a company of men

Yeah, and all the things they've done and not done
Glaring under the scope
Double R.J's mom, she called this morning
All is well back home
And how are you today, my son? Fine, mom, I'm fine
17 pages set in place for a back line of memories

Yeah, the new one's fighting for space and concern
Walter winks across the cue
My folks are goin' out today
I've got some weed, are you comin'?
And it's 24 years later
The movie lot's still intact
Tables buried under truck bones and machine shop tools

Well then, Walter hasn't found his way
From the park yet to page 18
Oh, and all those girls, God
What were their names?
Should've kept their pictures
It's starting to blur on double R.J
They're rolling into one
Except for elvin the snake and Indian George
And the guy you couldn't scare

And then first kiss on the playground
Bought with sister's stolen ring
So the odd discomfort shawl
Drapes it across his bony wings
As the loss of honest vision seers
Pioneers and double dares
Set your clothes on fire if you ever breathed a word, oh

And double R.J falls backwards
He can see further away
And double R.J falls backwards
He can see further and further away