Lyrics

Tales From The Sun

One Out On A Limb

I guess I was a little down on people in general when I wrote this.  It starts off very critical of others’ confusion and ineptitude and inability to think for themselves, resulting in blind adherence to dogma.  It then moves through condemnation of apathy and the postponement of personal happiness.  However, it ends up becoming personal and a confession that just like others I am, indeed, out on a limb.  The “rooty toot toot” bit is of course stolen from the rather dirty little marching rhyme “Rooty toot toot, rooty toot toot, we are the boys of the boy scout troop……………”  I liked it for the percussive effect and the allusion to automaton people marching off together to someplace they neither comprehend nor want to go.

One Out On A Limb © 1973, aidan nolan

There’s one out on a limb and he don’t know where to begin,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
There’s one out on a wave, and he don’t know who to save,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
There’s one up in a cloud, and he’s talking much too loud,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?

So you drink and think it up, pass along the coffee cup,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
Somewhere up there in a tower, there’s another happy hour,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?

And so you drink and think it up, pass along the coffee cup,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
Somewhere up there in a tower, there’s another happy hour,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?

There’s lovers on a bus, loking very much like us,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
There’s one out on a limb, and he don’t know where to begin,
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty, why?
Root toot tooty, root toot tooty,
Root toot toot, rooty tooty toot toot,
Root toot tooty, why?

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