Woke Up This Morning (The Sopranos)

And after three days of drinkin' with Larry Love
I just get an inklin' to go on home

So, I'm walkin' down Coldharbour Lane
Head hung low, three or four in the mornin'
The sun's comin' up and the birds are out singing
I let myself into my pad
Wend myself up that spiral staircase
And stretch out nice on the Chesterfield

Pithecanthropus Erectus already on the CD player
And I just push that remote button to sublimity
And listen to the sweet sculptural rhythms of Charles Mingus
And J.R. Monterose and Jackie McLean duet on those saxophones
And the sound makes its way out the window
Minglin' with the traffic noises outside, you know
And all of a sudden I'm overcome by a feelin' of brief mortality

'Cause I'm gettin' on in the world, comin' up on forty-one years
Forty-one stony gray steps towards the grave, you know
The box awaits its grisly load
Now I'm gonna be food for worms

And just like Charles Mingus wrote that beautiful piece of music
"Epitaph" for Eric Dolphy
I say, "So long, Eric. So long, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus
So long, Duke Ellington and Lester Young
So long, Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald
So long, Jimmy Reed. So long Muddy Waters, and so long Howlin' Wolf."

Woke up this mornin'
Got yourself a gun
Your mama always said you'd be the chosen one
She said, "You're one in a million
You got to burn to shine
But you were born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes"

And you woke up this mornin'
And all that love had gone
Your Papa never told you about right and wrong
Hey but you're, but you're looking good, baby
I believe that you're a-feelin' fine
Shame about it
Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes
So sing it now

Woke up this morning
(Woke up this mornin')
You woke up this morning
(Woke up this mornin')

I see ya, ya woke up this mornin'
Lord above, things ain't been the same
Lord above, things ain't been the same

Hey but you're, but you're, one in a million
'Cause you got that shotgun shine
Shame about it
Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes
But you're, you're one in a million
So sing it now

(Woke up this morning)
(Woke up this mornin')
You got a blue moon
So sad
Goddamn, goddamn shame about it
Goddamn
A goddamned shame about it
(Woke up this mornin')
You got a blue moon
(Got a blue moon in your eyes)
Yeah, I know you

When you woke up this morning everything was gone
By half past ten your head was going ding-dong
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes
Ringin' like a bell from your head down to your toes
Like some voice tryin'a tell ya there's somethin' you should know

Last night you was flyin' but today you're so low
Ain't it times like these makes you wonder if you'll ever know
Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers
Don't you wish you didn't function
(Woke up this morning)
Don't you wish you didn't function, don't you wish you didn't think
Beyond the next pay check and the next little drink?

Well you do so make up your mind to go on
'Cause when you woke up this mornin'
Everything you had was gone
Yeah, you know it
Woke up this mornin'
When ya woke up this mornin'
(Woke up this morning)
Woke up this mornin'
Ya woke up this mornin'

Woke up this mornin'
You wanna be, you wanna be the chosen one
Yeah you know it 'cause, you just can't help yourself, yeah

Woke up this mornin'
When ya, woke up this mornin'

Woke up this mornin'
Woke up this mornin'

Woke up this mornin'
Got yourself a gun
Got yourself a gun
Got yourself a gun