You Can't Do Me - Madeleine Peyroux

You can’t do me, you can’t do me

You can’t do me the way you did before

You can’t do me, you can’t do me

You can’t do me the way you did before

'Cause when you do and when you do

'Cause when you do, you know I get so blue

When you do and when you do

And when you do, you know I get so blue

And I go down like a deep sea diver

Out like a Coltrane tenor man

Lost like a Chinese war baby

Gone, gone, gone

I’d be blue like a Mississippi sharecropper

Screwed like a high school cheerleader

Tattooed like a popeyed sailor man

Gone, gone, gone

I should have been, I should have been

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

I should have been, I should have been

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

And for a while, just a while, for a good long while

You’d see me smile, smile, smile

I’d crawl the seas on my bony knees

No apologies for my brave new style

I wouldn’t go bust like an Internet millionaire

Boom like a Lebanese belly dancer

Bang like a new year’s firecracker

Gone, gone, gone

I wouldn’t get bent like a rattan rockin' chair

Blanked like a last place also ran

Burned like an Arkansas griddlecake

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

I should have been, I should have been

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

And if I was, if I was

Then if I was then I’d complain no more

And for a while, for just a while, for a good long while

You’d see me smile, smile, smile

I’d crawl the seas on my bony knees

No apologies for my brave new style

I wouldn’t get wrecked like a rebel on a racetrack

Jacked like a '51 Cadillac

Macked like a bunny in a mansion

Gone, gone, gone

Spittooned like an Alabama 'backy wad

Harpooned in a Melville sailor yard

Cartooned like a Charlie Brown Christmas card

Gone, gone, gone

Schooled like a milk money bully whip

Sued like a teenage downloader

Unglued like a bull in a china shop

Gone, gone, gone

Cranked like a speed freak high roller

Yanked like a little league ball swatter

Spanked like a fly on a bar counter

Gone, gone, gone

Duked like a pistol whipped card swapper

Rebuked like a Bible belt border crosser

Juked like a payola chart topper

Gone, gone, gone