Red House Painters - Michael lyrics

Michael, where are you now? Michael, where are you now? Somehow in my excitement The last time you called It slipped again to ask Your hidden whereabouts I got a lead from your old triple-ex-girlfriend She said, "I heard he lost his mind Again and again" I said I didn't know that you ever did Michael, where are you now? Michael, where are you now? Sleeping through the mornings in flannel impaired and Getting high in the Southern air Shoeless, sandy evenings down the unfamiliar Last whiff of salt-water freedom Skipping shells in the dead zone With the ghost on your side Of the state's border line Whispering "Take it, take it Take it, take it Take it" Do you remember the first subway ride? Our first heavy metal haircuts? Our last swim on the East Coast? And me with my ridiculous-looking pierced nose? I remember your warm smile in the sun The daydreaming boy without a shirt on The Birmingham barfly father left a mother of three sons You're the oldest juvenile delinquent bum My best friend