Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Businessmen lyrics

JACK: Businessmen deeply awake sleeping like spinning tops corner the smalltown mastoid market their uvulas hopping mad beneath boney earache profits punished by being kept alive sure of the past at last always a little sorry about reality JACK I (an issue forever): Worshipping whatever they find at their feet JACK II: Suspicion bursting innocently I & II: upon the guilty 'Jack's traveling band' Are they looking for something they can't find or are they looking for something they haven't got? 'phantom music' Impatience's high patience politics nothing to look at when someone is talking to you. JACK I: Drifting into hypnosis - JACK II: Outstaring the therapist to outstare - I: - eyelids cataleptic - II: - the therapist or so it would seem - I: - widely open and fixed - II: - bodies so tired they can't come clean - I: - raging pale with endurance - II: - all insurance a murder plot - I: - all the way to the hill II: - a goat not something easily got I & II: The sun deeper and deeper in debt exposing their rancidly calm minds to moonlight.