[ti:William Shatner's Dog] [ar:Stephen Fretwell] [al:Man On The Roof] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]William Shatner's Dog (Album Version) - Stephen Fretwell [00:29.37]I walk by the water and [00:31.49]Head for your house [00:34.11]Though I know that you'll be out [00:38.24]In some dirty city bar [00:46.43]I stand on your street [00:48.12]And I stare at your room [00:51.73]And the shadows play and move [00:55.60]And your brother comes out with a bat [01:01.54]Saying that [01:06.15]You might be with your sister in Paris [01:11.71]On the Rue Turnau [01:14.26]Wearing Marline Dietrich glasses [01:20.01]Where we made that bet [01:23.19]That bet I knew you'd win for sure [01:30.50]When you where sick on the floor [01:37.00]The calico's ripped [01:38.75]Beneath the patch [01:41.62]It's an itch I can never scratch [01:45.80]Now it's so far gone in the past [01:53.50]The fines I'm [01:54.75]Having trouble to contest [01:58.55]With the library book you kept [02:02.29]The one that sent your head so far west [02:09.90]Far far away [02:12.60]In those continental cities [02:18.22]Where they get in a race [02:21.59]To see who can build the tallest buildings [02:26.52]Where you went for some space [02:29.33]And wound up [02:31.70]With a slightly redder face [02:37.07]And a pain in your gut [02:45.61]I turn on the TV [02:47.37]And I see there your face [02:50.80]And in it is not one trace [02:54.42]Of that old brown bowl of lace [03:02.35]And that bowl of lace [03:05.35]Is sat beside the gas bar fire [03:10.41]Where you probably laid [03:13.15]Eating ice cream chocolate lollies [03:18.64]That your mother brought home [03:21.75]From the freezer store [03:25.13]On the Old Kent Road [03:29.31]She too had enough [03:34.80]And that look on your face [03:37.98]That you'd throw across the dinner table [03:43.54]In the middle of grace [03:46.66]Your fathers eyes closed shut tight [03:51.77]And it happend like that [03:54.89]Every damn night [03:58.27]That I had to come [04:02.89]To your house [04:08.13]Well tell Charles O'Keefe [04:11.12]That I don't want to go to Paris [04:16.81]It's sunnier here [04:19.23]And I'm happy in this loveless marriage [04:25.09]With the girl from the Pru [04:28.15]And your father and your sister [04:31.53]And your mother too [04:35.02]And not forgetting you