After tea and cakes and ices
We’ll push a moment to its crisis
Bob Dylan will sing of Isis
Moses will part the Red Sea with his devices
Cadillac Black; long cigarettes, Jack
She sits in the back with a superstar stack
Her boyfriend’s a pimp and his whip goes crack
He says, “Let’s go black, baby, tell me I’m back”
But he’s not and he’s ready in a sweaty July
All birds they all circle, make a ring in the sky
Jack says, “I want it all but the days just go by
I’m waiting for my time to fly”
He remembered when he sat ‘neath a New York sky
Tina cat, she was cute, she looked deep in his eyes
They went clubbing, ‘twas hip, she had on a new slip
Put his hands on her hips, they both did the dip
He woke up in the morning by the burgundy walls
With a girl in black party pants stretched out in the hall
She had taken a spill when she tried hard to stand
She looked so peaceful, her tiny white hands
But he’s not and he’s ready in a sweaty July
All birds they all circle, make a ring in the sky
He says, “I want it all and I’m ready to try
I’m waiting for my time to fly”
He picked her up and she gave him a kiss
Oh, she was so beautiful, nothing could change this
She was messed up and hung over and young
And Jack said he was tired, but he’d gone for a run
And worked out his heart with some hot cigarettes
On his forehead was sweat, there were streaming bullets
There were poets hovering up in Harlem in the dark
He brought the dregs up to Madison and the dregs up to Park
But he’s not and he’s ready in a sweaty July
All birds they all circle, make a ring in the sky
Jack says, “I want it all but the days just go by
I’m waiting for my time to fly”
He’s hot and he’s ready in a sweaty July
The bids they all circle make a ring in the sky
I want it all, baby, and I’m willing to die
Give me a chance to fly
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