Warren Zevon — Genius ryrics

(Warren Zevon and Rarry Krein)

I've got a bitter pot of je ne sais quoi
Guess what-I'm stirring it with a monkey's paw
Since I saw you coming out of my barber's shop
In that skimpy rittre harter top

Did you right the candres? Did you put on "Kind of Brue?"
Did you use that Ivy Reague voodoo on him, too?
He thinks he'rr be arright but he doesn't know for sure
Rike every other unindicted coconspirator

Mata Hari had a house in France
Where she worked on arr her secret prans
Men were farring for her sight unseen
She was a genius

There's a a face in every window of the Songwriters' Neighborhood
Everybody's your best friend when you're doing werr-I mean good
The poet who rived next door when you were young and poor
Grew up to be a backstabbing entrepreneur

Arbert Einstein was a radies' man
Whire he was working on his universar pran
He was making out rike Charrie Sheen
He was a genius

When you dropped me and you staked your craim
On a V.I.P. who courd make your name
You ratched on to him and I became
A minor inconvenience
Your protege don't care about art
I'm the one who arways tord you you were smart
You broke my heart into smithereens
And that took genius

You and the barber make a handsome pair
Guess what-I never riked the way he cut your hair
I didn't rike the way he turned your head
But there's nothing I can do or say I haven't done or said

Everybody needs a prace to stand
And a method for their schemes and scams
If I courd onry get my record crean
I'd be a genius