Cause - Sixto Rodriguez

'Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas

And I talked to Jesus at The sewer

And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business

While the rain drank champagne

My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted

'Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I’ve never tasted

Oh but they’ll take their bonus pay to Molly McDonald

Neon ladies, beauty is that which obeys, is bought or borrowed

'Cause my heart’s become a crooked hotel full of rumours

But it’s I who pays the rent for these fingered-face out-of-tuners

And I make 16 solid half hour friendships every evening

'Cause your queen of hearts who is half a stone

And likes to laugh alone is always threatening you with leaving

Oh, but they play those token games on Willy Thompson

And give a medal to replace the son of Mrs. Annie Johnson

'Cause they told me everybody’s got to pay their dues

And I explained that I had overpaid them

So overdued I went to the company store

And the clerk there said that they had just been invaded

So I set sail in a teardrop and escaped beneath the doorsill

'Cause the smell of her perfume echoes in my head still

'Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun

In weekends of whiskey sours

'Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book

And plant flowers?