Fat Tuesday

Friends are calling 'cause I've fallen down
I've joined the circus but I ain't no clown
It's 5 years and some midgets too
Around the corner right next to the zoo

Call me crazy and it's probably true
They used to call me now they here they go
What's black and white and red all over
A newspaper story about a murder lover

I feel half crazy and I feel half haunted
Down the well of wishes of the dearly departed
Come to find our we are all connected
Mosquitoes bitten and they got infected

Mardi gras has come to town
Time to lay your burdens down
How fat can a Tuesday get?
Boy you ain't seen nothin yet

I get a midnight call but to no avail
I got the boat but I forgot the sail
I'll soon be rowing gently down the stream
Upon the sheets I will lie and dream

When I wake the sun will shine like madness
Down on the heads of the drunken masses
Out on the streets with their glasses full
Riding in a buggy while the mules pull

Drivers rewrite the course of history
While the local past remains in the streets
Europeans and people of color
Join in the party that is seeing double

Mardi gras has come to town
Time to lay your burdens down
How fat can a Tuesday get?
Boy you ain't seen nothin yet

Tell me how fat can a tuesday get?
You're on the water with a fishing net
Boil it down and sit at the table
Peel and eat, but you're not able

Autopsy showed you were full of fish
A broken heart and a come-true wish
Now a fire burns out on the levee
And the weight of the world is not that heavy

As when you were a little kid
Now don't forget to pick up the lid
If you went on back, would you change a thing?
Or wait and see what tomorrow will bring

Mardi gras has come to town
Time to lay your burden down
How fat can a Tuesday get?
Boy you ain't seen nothin yet