I Walk With A Cane

Started feeling sick around Spokane

Checked in a motel and wept

I kept having dreams about the scenes that I'd seen

Kicked through the sheets while I slept

The fourth morning, surprised by the sunrise

Blackouts edged by the blue

Before I took my stuff up to the station

I stuck a stone in my shoe to remind me of you

Took the book from the bedstand

Started reading wherever

Daniel's still there in the lion's den

Danny, you might be there forever

Took my refuge in Bellevue

With an angel that agreed I was blameless

But I still have marks from the teeth of the sharks

That spring we spent completely painless

I thought that maybe the service

Would teach me how to save lives

But mostly I learned how to buckle my buttons

And how the difference between dead and alive

Is just a look in your eye

One glance at this bedding

I could tell it knew struggle

Sat at the table and took off my boots

Tried to shake out the trouble

Tried to shake out the trouble

And I'm sorry about the way that it ended

And I'm sorry that you never got famous

You were one of many martyrs that never got credit

For the spring we spent completely painless

Daniel Green was a friend of mine

I met him in a barroom in Venice

Said he'd acted as a doctor in a show about a hospital

Till the studio turned against him

Drove up the coast in his Cutlass

Said it was too hot in L.A.

We ran out of road up in Washington State

He ran out of rope around May

Dragged him into the bathtub

Let loose the cold water

On the way out the door, I went through his pockets

Mingled our money together

Mingled our money together

And I'm sorry that I left so abruptly

And I'm sorry but I really had to run

The paramedics usually know exactly what they're doing

If there's something to be done

And the stone in my shoe just reminds me

We're all born with original sin

And I'm limping up the street in Spokane towards the station, remembering him

And the stone in my shoe just reminds me

Daniel was a beautiful friend

And it's really hard to walk when you're carrying this cross

To remind you of your greatest sins

I walk with a cane now

I walk with a cane

I keep a stone in my shoe to remind me of you

And now I walk with a cane

Now I walk with a cane