Dime and Dive

Dime and Dive


Ain’t you a tall glass of water
Set before a drowning man?
Or more like Chinese water torture?
A little skin buys a lot of sand

Oh, I am not really a good man
By any standards you should keep
No, I am not a good man – no, no, no
But you still go on and call me sweet

Dime and dive
Dime and dive
Dime and di-ving…
Call me up
Or come on down
Slide on over – say, “a-hello there!”
Won’t you…
Dime and dive with me?

Monk and Strindberg sit by the window
Always Halloween night in a lib-arts town
The piano’s seen its share of cat paws, don’t I know!
Some dance to rhythm – I drink to soul

And ain’t you the Lady of the River?
Some Greek myth I once was told
Never did get girls who smoke menthols – no, no, no
And can’t stand a thing but rock ‘n’ roll

Dime and dive
Dime and dive
Dime and di-ving
Call me up
Or come on down
Slide on over – say, “a-hello there!”
Won’t you…
Dime and dive with me?

All the Gumshoes eat their apples
And Femme Fatales: pomegranates
Stranger things get called martinis – ‘round here
Oh, ‘tis the season for new regrets

In walks Esmeralda bleeding
She is throwing shade like wedding rice
No sense in asking ‘bout her evening – no, no, no
She’ll only have your sympathy on ice

Dime and dive
Dime and dive
Dime and di-ving
Call me up
Or come on down
Slide on over – say, “a-hello there!”
Won’t you…
Dime and dive with me?

Ain’t you a tall glass of water
Set before a drowning man?
Or more like Chinese water torture?
A little skin buys a lot of sand

I am not a good man…
By any standard that this world should keep
No, I am not a good man – no, no, no
But still… you call me sweet

Still you call me sweet…

So call me up
Or come on down
Slide on over – say, “a-hello there!”
Won’t you…
Dime and dive with me?


December 9, 2016