Just Passing Through Songtext
von Augie March

Ten o′clock is when I rise from my grave
Cast my eye over the ideas that I couldn't save
Come regret and break upon me now without delay
Bid me remember what I done
Strange appears in the magazine Zodiac
With inspiration all the women at the dog track
There′s a wheel and there's a well and there's a big wreck
The pocket killers from the north
Collecting Saturdays with brood and sally forth

I don′t know, enough to know, not to show
It′ll tell you like I know more
Sorry baby but your opening poet
Just a bank balance through the door
Can't sing the song any more


Ten o′clock is when you open up your apple eyes
Drink a cup, you're to the one, avert the other skies
And out your mouth a tiny burst, a tiny baby cries
Oh where, oh where, oh where did she get into?
Strange appears into a pocket where a body lay
I saw a dream of such a couple only yesterday
And when the one did leave the other went, woe in all the gay
Shall I hallow was a hallowin′
Said how to handle was a heroin

I know I'm not low, not to show
It′ll smile like a bad sore
I'm sorry darling but your opening poet
Just a footloose mad whore
Can't talk the talk any more

Ooh, just passing through
Ooh, just passing through


Ten o′clock is when I rise from my grave
Cast my eye over the ideas that I couldn′t save
Come regret and break upon me now without delay
Bid me remember what I done
Time doesn't tell you pay a fee to make it rip
Ditch witch of the black hole the ball catch the tip
Saw it from the helix spilling over on that sodom lip
It comes off to see I′m here
Do you ever see your weakness standing clear?
We were winding up the road to this site
With the windows down and the cigarettes alight
Singing some rubbish 'bout my soul′s alright
I didn't know what I could do
We were winding up the road to this site
With the windows down and the cigarettes alight
Singing some rubbish ′bout my soul's alright
I didn't know what I could do
Since you and I some other guy forever passing through

Ooh, just passing through
Like a door stone
Ooh, just passing through
Like a rat through a snake
Ooh, just passing through
A little brother stood at break
Ooh, just passing through
Oh, the sound you make
The kind of service that you′ll never make