Play Ain't I Good to You

I walk in

And he starts playing

Ain’t I Good to You?

You trying to be funny, Bobby?

You think that’s funny?

I’m not mad at you, baby

Don’t worry

Nobody’s mad at you

Just noticing things

That’s all

I like that song, you know

I like it a lot

It’s no As Time Goes By

But it makes me smile all the same

Not like there’s lots of songs out there

That can make a girl smile

Not even me

And I’m a pretty happy girl

Most of the time

Just feel like

When I lived back east

I always had somewhere to go

And someone to light my cigarettes for me

Here nobody smokes

And anytime you get somewhere

You find out nobody’s there waiting for you

Bobby’s the one that came by

And put in a tv for me

So I’d have something

To keep me company

Told me I should get a cat

I said, ‘Bobby, a cat can take care of itself

That’s why it doesn’t appeal to me'

If it can take care of itself

What does it need me for?

Even a television

Needs you to turn it on

And I’m good at that

You should hear my friend Maureen

Sing this song

She could sing it--

Jesus

It would melt you

That’s how good it was

She’s been gone a few years

Car accident

Just a dumb old

Red-light runner

And now this song is--

Bobby plays it

And I ask him

Who the hell’s supposed to sing it?

Not me

I don’t like singing

A dead woman’s song

Doesn’t matter if she’s dead

The song’s still hers

But it does make me smile

I liked Mauren

But if I’m being honest

I didn’t think too much about her

When she was alive

Now that she’s dead
I think about her all the time

Wish I knew she was going to die

I might have thought about her more

When I had the chance to come here

And get a seat in front

Listen to her sing

Somebody should have recorded her singing it

It’s a sin that they didn’t

It’s a real sin

Funny they call it the City of Angels

When everybody knows

It’s a City of Sinners

The sun comes up

And you see people scurrying back

To their little hillside holes

Like vampires, but--

Not as sexy

Not as interesting

Just people

Who can’t take

Seeing things

In the light

Just people

Who don’t like

The sun

And that’s too bad

You know?

Because out here

All we got

Is sun