mother once i awoke as an old man. my name was stanley forbes and i threw tin cans at everyone who passed my porch. i dont know why i did but i didnt throw them at the kids so i was a good guy      i remember yellin hi   too loo rye   its the day before i die    so why   too loo rye   cause everybody is walking by? oh hi   too loo rye   its the day before i die   and i wanna sigh and cry   alongside my brothers      mother once i awoke, as a squirrel and i jumped from tree to tree to tree to tree, it was me at the acme of my career. i saved all i caught that year, which is a lot of acorns let me tell you. i was very resourceful and      i cried   too loo rye   this is how it feels to fly so high   too loo rye   this aint nothing cash could buy oh hi   too loo lyre    tomorrow i could die   so im gonna climb the pines and have mself a time      mother i dreamt i died last night. see i was a lightbulb, left on a little too long and burned till i was dead with a hundred good ideas in my head but i forgot 'em all and they tried to throw me away. but hey when they grabbed a hold of me they all would burn their hands and see that i was still quite hot with thought and so a little thought they got that they should keep me as a kind of warmth you cant get from a stove or hearth. so i sought and thought and frought and fought but then cooled down and said       oh hi   too loo rye   to think i had a light inside when i try   too loo rye   to remember what i wanted to find so sigh   too loo rye   i thought that i had died      but i think tonight i've got it right, im stanley and the squirrel the invisible light, im a lover liar, humble fire, im a little spider and a chicken on the wire climbin tryin sighin cryin laughin highfivin slowly dyin      but i swear now thats alright, yeah i swear now thats alright, mother im alright