God's Eye View - Walter Becker

Last chance: Could you make it baby if you only had one more one

Fast break: You think the world is waiting while you’re gettin' your bikini done

Screen pass: Like a blind side tackle boiling up from way behind

Cheap shot: You can feel it coming but you know it’s gonna blow your mind

So you rock so — and you skank so —

Well if you think so — why not say so

Trash talk: Now you tell your girlies that it’s nothin' but a burnout buzz

Chump change: When you pick up the pieces you don’t even know what it was

Goose chase: A little runaround action just to keep the background pure

Jump cut: To the grim conclusion that you never can tell for sure

Well it’s the god’s eye view

Better take a long hard look

You’re gonna have me right now

Like it says in the book

It’s the god’s eye view

Baby it’s the queen and rook

Chasing one lonely pawn

No it wouldn’t take long

Safe house: Just a simulation of the mommy-and-daddy groove

Mood swing: When the game gets tired and you’re ready to bust a move

Bad luck: There are no surprises when the best laid plans go bust

Deal with it: In the glaring absence of anything you could trust

So you rock so — it’s a fact so —

Now that you know so — why don’t you act so

Breakdown: Of the last resistance and the partisans fold their tent

Mind meld: Like a permanent picture of your pussyprint in cement

Big bang: It’s a bible story with a plot twist at the end

History: And whatever happened well it’s happening here again

It’s the god’s eye view

This is where the deal goes down

Girl you better get right

With the facts on the ground

It’s the god’s eye view

Everything they say is so

No original sins

The house always wins

He says: Me and her went walking by the river on Friday night

He says: And we started talking and she says you know it don’t seem right

She says: After all that’s happened and I end up with a prick like you

Too bad: Well it’s too bad darlin' and there’s nothing for a man to do

It’s the god’s eye view

Baby take a long hard look

I was standing right there

When they wrote in the book