Why I Am - Live at Piazza Napoleone, Lucca, Italy - July 2009

So uh, y'all remember our good friend LeRoi Moore
Well, when we were working on this new music
That we've been playing some of this music
You know, we working on this one tune
That LeRoi was particularly fond of
So this song will always be for our good friend LeRoi
This is called, "Why I Am"

I grew from monkey into man
Then I crushed fifteen million with a wave of my hand
I grew drunk on water turned into wine
'Til I was slave and master at the same damn time

But it's why I am
It's why I am
Why I am still here dancing with the GrooGrux King

Out of my head and into the room
Hello

A king of men, it makes no sense
When I bow to the Priest, while I worship the Witch

But it's why I am one to make you smile
Why I am by working in your monkey pile
Why I am still here dancing with the GrooGrux King

Out of my head and into the room
So when my ghost takes me from you
You can remember the fool that I am
Don't cry, baby
Don't cry

It's the lose and the win of the world
Wrong and right, us and them of the world
It's the you and the me of the world
Only one way out of the world

It's the lose and the win of the world
Wrong and right, us and them of the world
It's the you and the me of the world
Only one way out of the world

It's why I am unlikely to agree
Why I am climbin' out of my monkey tree
Why I am forever dancing with the GrooGrux King

We'll be drinking Big Whiskey while we dance and sing
When my story ends it's gonna end with him
Heaven or hell I'll go there with the GrooGrux King

Why I am the apple of your pretty eye
Why I am a snake in the wood pile
Why I am still here dancing with the GrooGrux King

Out of my head and into the room
So when my ghost takes me from you
You can remember the fool that I am
Don't cry, baby
Don't cry

Thank y'all very, very much again
So much for tonight
We hope y'all are having a good, good time