The motel lights were blinkin'   On my chartreuse four door lincoln   On the dock the fish were stinkin'   I simply didn't have a care      And the old men sit 'round the cracker barrels   The children hum their christmas carols   The train tracks all run parallel   But they'll all meet up one day      On a dusty pew in a vestibule   Sits the devil playing pocket pool   He's waiting for the next poor fool   Who forgot that it was sunday      We used to tell each other lies   With our orange plastic button eyes   In a former life on a motel chair   I was charlie parker's teddy bear      Yeah, me and bird we'd stay up late   I used to watch him contemplate   While his horn would sit by the window and   Wait till it was time for him to blow it      On a dusty pew in a vestibule   Sits the devil playing pocket pool   He's waiting for the next poor fool   Who forgot that it was sunday      The only song I ever knew   Was "moonlight bay on the avenue"   These are the tales from the devil's chin   Charlie I could've been a contender      And the old men sit round the cracker barrels   The children hum their christmas carols   The train tracks all run parallel   But they'll all meet up one day      On a dusty pew in a vestibule   Sits the devil playing pocket pool   He's waiting for the next poor fool   Who forgot that it was sunday   Who forgot that it was sunday.