Lyrics

Add up all the days in this life
choose your favorite one
With these hands I strung these beads and soon I will be done
I started out somewhere and now I’m here, now I’m here

I’ve been thrown out of bars in all 50 states, I rode the boxcars
with Bill and Melinda Gates
I was the last to leave Times Beach
Homeless dogs and movie stars and now I’m sleeping in the
back of my brother’s car
I heard the bells of St. Angela ring

I will stay until Christmas Day , I will stay
And then I’ll fly away
So light a candle for me on my last night in the world

Can you take the wheel, we’re almost there, almost there
Take me to the Rex Hotel and
I will disappear

Broke down trucks and fancy cars, now I’m sipping champagne from a mason jar
With the boys from Cannery Row
Sterno bums and blue highways
from the Iron Range down to Santa Fe
Tonight I’ll close this city down

I’ll give the last string of beads that I have got to two young
lovers on the Esplanade
Then I will say goodnight

I will stay until Christmas Day , I will stay
And then I’ll fly away
So light a candle for me on my last night in the world

Add up all the days in this life choose your favorite one