You Can Call Me Al (Demo) Songtext / Lyric

A man walks down the street

He says, Why am I soft in the middle now?

Why am I soft in the middle?

When the rest of my life is so hard!

I need a photo-opportunity

I want a shot at redemption

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard



Bonedigger, Bonedigger,

Dogs in the moonlight

Far away, my well-lit door

Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly

Get these mutts away from me!

You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore



If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me

You can call me Al






A man walks down the street

He says, Why am I short of attention?

Got a short little span of attention

And whoa, my nights are so long!

Where's my wife and family?

What if I die here?

Who'll be my role-model?

Now that my role-model is

Gone, gone

He ducked back down the alley

With some roly-poly, little bat-faced girl

All along, along

There were incidents and accidents

There were hints and allegations



If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me

You can call me Al

Call me Al



A man walks down the street

It's a street in a strange world

Maybe it's the Third World

Maybe it's his first time around

He doesn't speak the language

He holds no currency

He is a foreign man

He is surrounded by the sound, sound

Cattle in the marketplace

Scatterlings and orphanages

He looks around, around

He sees angels in the architecture

Spinning into infinity

He says, Amen! and Hallelujah!



If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me

You can call me Al (Call me)



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I can call you Betty...

If you'll be my bodyguard...

I can call you Betty...

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