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Jim Carroll – Crow lyrics
It must be strange to just fall from the stage
And snap a bone that is so close to the brain
And be attended to by so many down below
I saw a doctor tie you up from so far above
And you start singing just like light through a black floor
You start sliding like burned skin to a side door

Refrain:
But crow, when you throw yourself under
Singin's hard when you can't loose control
They don't know, to them in the dark you don't whisper nothin'
And they're all gonna try and rip the wind from your soul

It must have been hard to be a cashier in a bookstore
And to be surrounded by the history of your true loves
And you'd get naked between the deep shelves in the backroom
And have your brain get tan by sharp fluorescent light tubes
And you start spinning like the pillars in the temple
You'd start screaming just like sister aimee semple

But crow, when you throw yourself under
The streets are hard when you cannot lose control
They don't know, to them the dark don't whisper nothin'
And they're all gonna try and rip the wind from your soul
Crow

It was so sweet when you brought donuts to the junkies
Hey, you'd give us something we'd go slip into our coffee
And we'd start reading lines from poems that didn't matter
You covered me with blankets in the chelsea hotel lobby
And I'd start reachin' for the scar along your belly
They'd start takin' us 'cause winning is their hobby

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    James Goodrich
    Someone let me know years ago of this song that Jim wrote of his friend, and some time girl friend, Patti Smith. I'd heard her nickname was Crow and thought it might be personal between them. However, I found this on the web tonight: "Salvador Dalí may have once told her she resembled a crow, but to this day, Patti Smith is much more widely regarded as a style icon".

    The song is likely autobiographical in nature as Jim was a heroin addict. I had not heard it in years but played it and other parts of Jim's album A Catholic boy on Christmas Day, 2020. There are bits I skip where the lyrics go places where these day I choose not to follow. However, this song is not one of those. Today when it came to the lines
    "It was so sweet when you brought donuts to the junkies
    Hey, you'd give us something we'd go slip into our coffee
    And we'd start reading lines from poems that didn't matter
    You covered me with blankets in the Chelsea hotel lobby"
    ... I literally broke out sobbing. This simple act of charity spoke to me in a deep way somehow. Jim lived out his personal tragedies in his art.
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