If I Could Just Pull It Off

i just wish that i could get away
with wearing a bolo tie, tibetan boots
and a stove pie hat - especially the stove pipe hat
wish i could get away with that

wish they'd let me make sweet love to the governor's wife
she'd tell me i was the best she ever had in her life
ah but the powers that be they're keeping me down
making me live on the po side of town 
not letting me climb that golden ladder
it's like i'm swimming in pancake batter 
that's right, pancake batter

i just wish that i could get away
with bathing in whiskey every day 
and of course still having plenty to drink
telling everybody exactly what i think
call the skinny skinny and the fat fat
wouldn't take no guff from no precocious brat
i'd be sitting where Elvis Presley sat
and i'd walk all over your welcome mat 
wish that i could get away with that
wish that i could get away with that

i wish i could pull it off 
i mean singing Strangers in the Night while smoking
a cigarette that i'd lit from a burning bush
then i'd smack your pretty tush and say hey babe
i know you love it when i spin you round and round 
on the dancefloor of some lousy dive 
in the wrong part of town 
spilling wine on your sequined gown
making you feel like a queen in a teflon crown
making you wanna drown in my love
push wouldn't even have to come to shove
i wish i could pull it off - i wish i could pull it off

and i just wish that i could get away
with burning the candle at both ends
and buying McMansions for all my friends
filling 'em up with Barbie dolls
and life-size replicas of Niagra Falls
taking sledgehammers to the bedroom walls
listening to nothing but bird calls
i wish i could pull it off - i wish i could pull it off

i mean shooting the breeze with the chickadees
way down in Belize 
they'd be on their knees
so eager to please 
beneath those swaying palm trees
oh yes they'd sure be swaying 
and there'd be balalaikas playing
Russian girls, looking like movie stars
would strum those big trangular guitars
they'd fill up a hundred thousand tip jars
and take me riding in foreign sports cars 
i wish i could pull it off - i wish i could pull it off

and i just wish that i could get away
with robbing a bank in San Jose
because i know the way 
i'd have a fridge fulla beer 
and a hundred thousand records to play
like sitting here on Blue Jay Way
or my favorite: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
the people would cheer and they'd wanna hear
more Otis Redding 
and the pretty young girls would say to me 
Samm, come try out my brand new bedding
and there wouldn't be no talk of no wedding
no, there'd be no strings attached
the back door gates would stay unlatched
and i'd be on my way in the morning
the sunlight like a jewel adorning
the gleaming horizon
where new pleasures await
and there'll be no jealousy no hate
i'ts gonna be great, i can hardly wait
that's got to be my fate
if i could just pull it off
just pull it off 
just pull it off



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