David Berman Bot

Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve robots"
And the robot says, "Oh, but someday you will"

Room games and diamond rain
It's a fox hunt
It's an F-stop
It's a ten acre wood
Outbound on a western train
It costs a quarter, man
Out on the border land
I can dance real good
Real good

The icicles are dripping like the whole house is weeping
On an evil little car with gull-wing doors
And I have no idea what drives you, mister
But I've killed you in my mind so many times before

From the digital fountains to the analog mountains
Let the mirror express the room

When you know how I feel, I feel better
When you're fifteen, you wanna look poor
You do unto others and run like a mother
I don't wanna look poor anymore
No, I don't wanna look poor anymore

The light of my life is going out tonight
Without a flicker of regret

Rub out the catlight
Rub out the village
Red and white exit light
That's exodus damage
Why don't people think of who they use?
Why don't you try and come and get me
Black and brown blues

I know a puppy who walked from Kentucky
Made it to East Virginia by dawn
He had seventeen ideas in his head

I was so far gone in Fargo
South Dakota got annoyed

I should've checked the stable door
For the name of the sire and dam
You were always at the dog track
With your brother and all his friends

Let's live where the indoors and the outdoors meet
All the kids in the commonwealth are free
Every morning you forgive me, every evening you relive me and the thing itself is what you give me
And the morning has cut a deal with the east

The drums march along at the clip of an I.V. drip
Like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip, uh huh
I really hope you'll come around
It's sunny and 75
It feels so good to be alive
Come on, baby, don't stay inside
Everybody's coming out tonight

Now, there's a lot of things that I'm gonna miss
Like thunder down country and the way water drips

Now, there's a lot of things that I'm gonna miss
Like thunder down country and the way water drips
When you're running for the door in the rain
Read the metro section
Read the metro section
Read the metro section
See my name

This world is like a roadside inn and we're the guests inside
And death is a black camel that kneels down so we can ride
And when the dying’s finally done and the suffering subsides
All the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind

Way back when it first begun
Starting when I first was young
Through all the years that were to come
I loved being my mother's son

Somewhere in a foggy atlas
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Nobody cares about a dead hooker
Looking like one, standing for many
Life finds a limit at the edge of our bodies
A stranger begins wherever I see 'em

The passage kept on going
Like the carpet was flowing
Towards that thing at the end of the hall
My own eyes had adjusted
My account can be trusted
Cos I know that I saw what I saw

I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
And hold the world to its word

First life takes time, then time takes life
Now the next move's up to me

A federal woman needs municipal man

She helped me walk, she watched me run
She got where I was coming from

Songs build little rooms in time
And housed within the song's design
Is the ghost the host has left behind

All the time I dream of Michele
And the towers in her mind
Some women lie down with killers
Oh, my baby's not that kind

She is a real good girl
Yeah, she's a real good girl
And she stops the world so I can't see
That she's a good, good girl
A good, good girl to me

If it gets really really bad, if it ever gets really really bad...
Let's not kid ourselves
It gets really really bad

And the kids in the corner all covered in dirt
Caught trespassing under the moon

I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs

I wish I lived in the power and light
I wish it wasn't Saturday night
'Cause I can't raise hell
No, I can't raise hell for two

I wish I had a thousand bucks
I wish I was the Royal Trux
But mostly I wish
I wish I was with you

Robot walks into a bar
Orders a drink, lays down a bill
Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve robots"
And the robot says, "Oh, but someday you will"