Deny, Deny, Deny

Listen to me

It’s not that complicated, boss

It’s really  not

You don’t mind

When I call you boss

Do you?

Of course you don’t

You got a good sense of humor

I can tell

I can tell all about your sense of humor

Just from the drink you ordered

Little fucking fruity thing

With a pineapple wedge

Hey, I get it

Live in tikki

Do what the tikkis do

You in Cuba a lot

Now that all those fucking sanctions got lifted?

I was here all the time anyway

Even before then

Like I give a fuck about sanctions

So many rules you gotta follow nowadays

That lets up a little

When you get old enough

To just say ‘Fuck it’

When you get to a point where you’re like--

I work hard, you know?

You’re a hard worker, aren’t you?

I mean, maybe you like fruity drinks

But there’s nothing wrong with that

Nobody’s gonna hold that against you

We all got our thing

What other things you got, huh?

Just the one

Just the pineapple wedges?

Havana’s the new Berlin, you know?

All sorts of people coming here

To do all sorts of shit

They shouldn’t be doing

It’s a good fucking time

Let me tell you

Does my smoking bother you?

If it does, just tell me

I don’t like bothering people

I really don’t

I’d rather get along

I’m a get-along kinda guy

That and I’m a bad fighter

Used to get the shit kicked out of me

All the time

Back when I was a kid

One time in gym class

The older kids tried throwing me in the shower

With nothing but my underwear on

I was fucking humiliated

Isn’t it funny

That i can’t remember

What I ate for breakfast

But I remember that

Like it happened

Ten minutes ago?

All sorts of things coming back to me these days

And Havana

Has so much smoke

You don’t have to see anything

You don’t want to see

Happy to do my part

And add to the haze

Do you know what I mean?

Let me teach you a little trick

You like tricks?
I can show you one

I call it Deny, Deny, Deny

You light up a cigarette

And you have a few drinks
And you don’t eat

No matter how hungry you are

Then maybe you smoke a little something else

And maybe you take what’s offered to you

And you don’t ask questions

And then maybe after you’re done with all that

And you’ve sucked all the juice
Out of your pineapple wedge

You go up to Room 4-4-8

At the Terracotta

Two streets over

And if anybody asks

If you’re there to get int trouble

You do what?

Deny, Deny, Deny

That’s right

It’s easy, isn’t it?

Easiest trick in the world

And the more you do it

The better you get at it

Isn’t that great?

I mean isn’t that the greatest trick
You’ve ever heard?