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Me and Stupid at the cottage, |
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Casting out for giant trout. |
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Me and Stupid threw back sunfish, |
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Digging worms and lighting punks. |
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Pretending we weren't real. |
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Me and Stupid at the coalis, |
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Picking scabs and playing tag. |
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Me and Stupid, skookum stupid, |
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We got wailed on ginger ale |
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As flat as the Ferguson girl. |
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Me and Stupid, he was different. |
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I told lies about my band. |
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(Me and Stupid, Stupid and Me.) |
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He said would I show him chords, |
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So I said "Yes," and I showed him |
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"The House of the Rising Sun," |
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And some Original New Wave Rock! |
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He was my best friend... |
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Me and Stupid at the ball yard, |
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Throwing rocks to Rolling Stones. |
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He was Catfish Hunter, |
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I was Johnny Bench, and he would clench |
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That ball like the whole of the world. |
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Then on a night in the North Ontario summertime, |
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I heard a sound from the lake |
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Like the rage of a pike in the shallow reeds. |
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Something is about to happen. Leaves are still. |
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Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky... |
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I jumped down from the bunk where I slept |
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In the room with the fake-look wood |
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And the painting of God. |
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I could see his head bob there in the surf. |
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I could see his footprints fresh in the turf. |
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So I screamed and I yelled, |
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Like the time that I first heard Aerosmith. |
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Steve Tyler sang "Dream On," but I was stiff with fear |
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Seeing him drown in the cold lake. |
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So I screamed, and I yelled, |
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But all I heard was the sound of my hot... air. |
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Me and Stupid, his mind was fucked up, |
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But aren't we all in our own way? |
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They took Stupid to the Dumb House, |
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And that was all I saw of him. |
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That summer I heard the Ramones. |
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They played Original New Wave Rock! |
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(Pike! Trout! Minnows! Smelt!) |
