Simply Spalding Gray Songtext
von Steve Forbert

You′ve gone it seems to great extremes
To tell the tales you tell
You've lived them all both great and small
And so you tell them well
Extremes it seems are just the things
That cause your tales to grow
But everything′s extreme it seems to you
So there you go
Swimming to Cambodia, monster in a box
This dude just flipping sits there
And they film him while he talks
There ain't no sex or violence
Might not float your boat
A water glass, a table
And a page or two of notes

Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we'll be standing here still
Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we′ll be standing here still


Your mother died a suicide
So odds were up they say
That you would see things comparably
And end it all someday
A monologuing diarist makes his life his art
Off stage walks a tight wire and my fall apart
A motor crash in Ireland, bad blow to the head
Modified his madness and darkened things he said

Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we′ll be standing here still
Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we'll be standing here still

We′ll be standing here while the future breaks against us
Like the waves against a buoy in the bay
We'll be standing here or is time a magic carpet
That we′re riding on to move from day to day
Riding on to move from day to day

You've gone it seems to great extremes
To tell the tales you tell
But everything′s extreme it seems to you
So what the hell
Swimming to Cambodia, monster in a box
This dude just flipping sits there
And they film him while he talks
People pay to watch it as if it were a play
It ain't exactly acting, it's simply Spalding Gray


Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we′ll be standing here still
Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we′ll be standing here still
Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we'll be standing here still
Bye bye, just a wave if you will
Bye bye, we′ll be standing here still