The song Simply Spalding Gray is performed by Steve Forbert in the album named Strange Names and New Sensations in the year 2007 .
Your mother died a suicide,
So odds were up, they say,
That you would see things comp'rably
And end it all some day;
A monologing diarist
Makes his life his art,
Offstage walks a tightwire
And might fall apart;
Motor crash in Ireland
(Bad blow to the head)
Modified his madness
And darkened things he said.
Bye-bye, just a wave if you will,
Bye-bye, we'll be standing here still.
We'll be standing here while the future breaks against us
Like the waves against a buoy in the bay;
We'll be standing here or is time a magic carpet
That we're riding on to move from day to day?
Riding on to move from day to day?
You've gone it seems to great extremes
to tell the tales you tell,
But evâ (TM)rythingâ (TM)s extreme, it seems,
To you, so what the hell?
Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box,
This dude just flippin' sits there
And they film him while he talks;
People pay to watch it
As if it were a play;
It aint exactly acting,
It's simply Spalding Gray.
Bye-bye, just a wave if you will,
Bye-bye, we'll be standing here still;
Bye-bye, just a wave if you will,
Bye-bye, we'll be standing here still.
Steve Forbert - Strange Names and New Sensations
- Middle Age
- Strange Names (North New Jersey's Got Em')
- Simply Spalding Gray
- Man, I Miss That Girl
- You're Meant For Me
- I Will Sing Your Praise
- Something Special
- My Seaside Brown-Eyed Girl
- The Baghdad Dream
- Thirty More Years
- Around the Bend