Best opening lyric

That's great it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes and aeroplanes
Lenny Bruce is not afraid

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking bout the government

Madman drummer bummers
And Indians in the summer
With the teenage diplomat.

Come on come on,
Come on come on,
Come on it's such a joy,
Come on it's such a joy,
Come on and take it easy,
Come on and take it easy
Take it easy
Take it easy
Everybody's got something to hide
Except for me and my monkey.

Hallucinate, desegregate
Mediate, alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Don't suffocate on your own hate
A one world state

 

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drive a man insane
You broke my will
But what a thrill

 

How young are you? How old am I? Let's count the rings around my eyes.

They hung a sign up in our town: "If you live it up, you won't live it down".

The ashtray says you were up all night.

 

"Times were good
She never thought about the future, she just did what she would
Oh but she really cared
About her music, it all seemed so important then ... "

 

We're caught in a trap

 

You look like a perfect fit / For a girl in need of a tourniquet

 

Have you ever met a girl that you tried to date
But a year to make love she wanted you to wait?

 

Flew in from Miami Beach, B.O.A.C.
Didn’t get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight

 

Vernon'll meet me when the BOAC lands
The keys to the MG will be in his hands
Adjust to the drivin' and I'm on my way
It's all on the right side in Montego Bay

 

They call you lady luck
But there is room for doubt
At times you've had a very unladylike way
Of running out

 

I always heard "paperback," not paper bag. As in, you know, reading on a flight.

 

That’s funny because the first few times I heard the song I thought it was “Paper Bag Writer”.