Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
What else?
Anything Else?
Mary! Mary!
Mary! Mary! Mary!
Saw Red!
Mary!
Slow Ride!
Fuck!
You don't even realize
How long it's been sinse
I played any of these songs, like...
Well, I guess, you know, some of them, like...
Saw Red [? maybe "s'all right"?]
They all sound like this...
Roots of creation...
Baby one breath away
I'll find the words to say
I'll sit and light the bong
I'll hold my hit in real long
I don't know if I can
Go up inside of you tonight
Oh Mary baby,
I could do it right
You've heard the line before
Oh Mary baby please don't think that I'm a whore
If you come home with me,
Turn off the lights and lock up the doors,
And start getting busy
I don't know if I can
Go so way up inside you tonight
Oh Mary baby,
Please don't fuss and fight
When we got to the pad
Mary baby started calling me her dad
And she gave me head
We could not find the damn bed
Fifteen years old plus one,
Hotter than a microwave oven
Oh Mary baby,
Your daddy is coming home.
[cheers and applause]
My place, is not a home
Don't make no difference
But I've found,
That I need a place to stay
Though disease was just the price I paid
Big Salty Tears
Is what I taste
As I drive
Past your house
Tonight
And all those break lights
That are in front of me
They make me
Want to get on tonight
This is a Ziggens song by the way
I'm at the age where I realize
The liquor store won't bring you back
I must be gettin' old
I'm at the drive-thru
And I'm making my face
All fat fat fat fat fat
Big Salty Tears
I'm at the age where I realize
Nothin' actually
Just do what I'm supposed to do
$2.17
Next window please please please please please
Big Salty Tears
[cheers and applause]
Anything Else?
Mary! Mary!
Mary! Mary! Mary!
Saw Red!
Mary!
Slow Ride!
Fuck!
You don't even realize
How long it's been sinse
I played any of these songs, like...
Well, I guess, you know, some of them, like...
Saw Red [? maybe "s'all right"?]
They all sound like this...
Roots of creation...
Baby one breath away
I'll find the words to say
I'll sit and light the bong
I'll hold my hit in real long
I don't know if I can
Go up inside of you tonight
Oh Mary baby,
I could do it right
You've heard the line before
Oh Mary baby please don't think that I'm a whore
If you come home with me,
Turn off the lights and lock up the doors,
And start getting busy
I don't know if I can
Go so way up inside you tonight
Oh Mary baby,
Please don't fuss and fight
When we got to the pad
Mary baby started calling me her dad
And she gave me head
We could not find the damn bed
Fifteen years old plus one,
Hotter than a microwave oven
Oh Mary baby,
Your daddy is coming home.
[cheers and applause]
My place, is not a home
Don't make no difference
But I've found,
That I need a place to stay
Though disease was just the price I paid
Big Salty Tears
Is what I taste
As I drive
Past your house
Tonight
And all those break lights
That are in front of me
They make me
Want to get on tonight
This is a Ziggens song by the way
I'm at the age where I realize
The liquor store won't bring you back
I must be gettin' old
I'm at the drive-thru
And I'm making my face
All fat fat fat fat fat
Big Salty Tears
I'm at the age where I realize
Nothin' actually
Just do what I'm supposed to do
$2.17
Next window please please please please please
Big Salty Tears
[cheers and applause]
Lyrics submitted by MetalKronic
Mary / Big Salty Tears Lyrics as written by Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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