A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle

The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption

Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger

Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly

Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me

You can call me Al

A man walks down the street

He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long

Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model

Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley

With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents

There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me

You can call me Al
Call me Al


A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World

Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency

He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound

Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around

He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!


If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

Call me Al