I am the swingin' man, perpetually on the lam   Free as a bird or the girls in Amsterdam   Yellow taxi ride, hey, I never exercise   The devil when I speak or when I rise      Buddy Holly, told me   You can't save rock 'n' roll   It's only for the lonely boys and girls      I'm a courageous cat down at the Laundromat   A sacred cow I never took a vow   Like old buildings and whores, politicians and wars   All get respect man if they last this long      They used to call her Mary   But she changed her name to Raph   Life was something scary till she laughed   We never had a baby but she got more tattoos   And I got more material for the blues      Summer's rolling in   I want to lose this skin   They call it art but sometimes it's just a sin      I am a swingin' man, hey, I smile on command   I don't know when or how you got to me   We never had a baby but she got more tattoos   And I got more material for the blues