Broken Down Fence Songtext
von Michael McDermott

Ball Turret Gunnar
He was talkin′ on the phone
To some lady that he loved
And left broke in San Antone
Week willed Willie
And that trucker that he'd known
Headed down the to blue note
To hear that blind saxophone player
Nobody noticed
That Kenny left the scene
He was on his way to Venice
With some Merchant Marine
He said Ayou better read the signs
Before Paris starts to burn,
But you cats round here
You′re never gonna learn
It seems normal enough
It doesn't make any sense
When you fi nd yourself leanin'
On a broken down fence


Suzie closed up shop
And to Portland she was bound
But fi rst she had to make a deal
With that man in Charlottetown
She walked in wearin′ a straw hat
I′d only seen it once before
She sat down and knocked my heart
And my drink on to the fl oor
It's been a long time since we were over
A long time since we were through
She said she′d never get to high
Or fl y far from my view
When she got up to leave
She wore a smile on her face
But her tears were on her sleeve
It seems normal enough
It doesn=t make any sense
When you fi nd yourself leanin'
On a broken down fence
It seems normal enough
It doesn′t make any sense
When you fi nd yourself leanin'
On a broken down fence
Into a hip-hop daydream I go walkin′
And the Courvoisier keeps on talkin
And on the same stone I keep on stumblin'
With the same mistakes, baby, time and time again
Walkin' up Milwaukee
I′d seen the brother′s Grimm
They were talkin' trash and treason
About the kind of shape we′re in
They were workin' on a story
About a princess and a frog
I told ′em one about a junkie
And a philosophizing dog
Just around the corner
From a brand new day
Right around that time I thought
I'd heard somebody say
It seems normal enough
It doesn′t make any sense
When you fi nd yourself leanin'
On a broken down fence