Gary's Song Songtext
von Mark Eitzel

Gary, tell me why the leaves on the trees
Are falling this year as early as the spring
Why the leaves on the trees that are falling on us
Are like the words to a song that I′ve lived my whole life to sing

And if you swim too much you drown
If you swim too much you'll drown
And the shame of my life is watching you, Gary

If we sit here and drink some more beer
We′ll be two inflatable dolls in a hooker's bad dream
When the storm reaches us, we'll be two blind drunks
Who absorbed through a skin a whole lifetime of kerosene


And if you drink too much you drown
If you drink too much you′ll drown
And the shame of my life is watching you, Gary

Think we wore out our welcome
They′re waitin' for us to leave, Gary
They got a new kind of person
A newer, stronger, cleaner breed

Everything collapses in slow motion
And the roots of the dance and the stain in my pants
Are beyond any small man′s conception

And if you drink too much you drown
If you drink too much you'll drown
And the shame of my life is watching you drown