Jeffrey Lewis - Mini-Theme: Moocher From The Future lyrics

Minnie the moocher from the future She was raised by neither nature nor nurture She had a metal front and a plastic back But in the middle was a lot of soul and that's a fact She started messing round with the king of Saturn He looked like a purple psychedelic pattern His heart went zing when she did her thing And before long she was walking off with Saturn's ring She travelled from the future to the distant past k**ed a fly which made her first guy become her last Turned yesterday to notaday with some cute goon And said the past is just some future that arrived too soon And New York city how I love it so I'm always bumping into buddies whose names I don't know I don't get off to sleep until a quarter to four And then I wake up in the morning and I do it some more And when you look me in the face I just disintegrate Now I'm on another date that I kind of hate And I just keep falling further ended Seems by now I should have landed But Minnie the moocher from the future Could turn space into whatever kind of face would suit ya The rainbow's bend was what her contact lens was So she knew what the colour glowing in each of her friends was She started messing with the gamma beam He said baby stick with me, I'll turn your money green Gave her his number, she dialled it with a satellite pilot Took his infrared head and turned it ultra violet She rode a black hole to a magnetic pole Rode a dinosaur so long that it turned into coal Made the coal a diamond said this ain't my best friend Turned the j**el back into a dinosaur again And my window view is a brick wall or two With some barbed wire snagged on a plastic bag And every plane I hear I think the end is near They get louder and louder and then they disappear And the shampoo stings and the landline rings The Jesus freak on the corner with the guitar sings And the vacant lot daydreams of what it's not And the night seems to remember what the day forgot But Minnie the moocher from the future Is gonna meet me halfway 'tween when I find her and lose her And in that dock between the hands of the clock She's gonna park her flying spark here on my own block She'll honk her horn for me and take my arm She'll invite me on a ride to where the tide is born Where the director and cast of the future and past Follow the union rules and take a break at last And when we're all refreshed after a little rest She'll say goodbye to her guests and go back on her quest I'll say so long Minnie, I'm glad you're my friend I'm gonna keep dreaming about you till we meet again