Alligator
The Biggest Outsider in any AA meeting is the real alcoholic: This is a song about alcoholism I saw her in the cross roads, she looked my way with an expression that said come here and go away. She said she had a boyfriend, I said I’ll see you later, she said you wanna come to my house and meet my alligator? Chorus: I think I’m in trouble, trouble again. I don’t want to be her husband or her boyfriend. She said you’re much too old for me but you have a way with words. I said mmmm. I told her with her looks I wasn’t impressed but that was not true. She had the most beautiful face I’d seen, her eyes were gold and blue. CHORUS. The alligator sat at the kitchen table reading William Shakespeare. He said I can see what you’re afraid of but not what I fear. The alligator jumped across the kitchen table, drank some coffee from a dog dish. He turned around and looked straight up at me and said it smells like tuna fish. CHORUS. The minutes turned into hours, the hours turned into days. I got to know her in the most intimate ways. The fear turned to anger, the anger turned to rage. I seem to get younger, she seems to age. CHORUS. I took the alligator for a walk, down the empty street, I had to walk around all the broken dreams that were shattered at my feet. If I ever get out of here I’m never coming back. I know there’s a light in there somewhere, but all I see is black. CHORUS. Now she sits on the front porch with her alligator named Fred. The sun’s going down behind her house …
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