THE DAY WAS HOT
lyrics: Ithaka music : Arkam Hi-Fi, produced by:Mario Caldato Jr.
from the TEJO BEAT compilation 1998 (nortesul-EMI)
recorded in lisbon, Portugal
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Did you ever kill anyone?
Not exactly.
The day was hot, too hot for fun
Ninety-eight in the sun, One twenty-one in the sun
Boarding down to a job interview
Unemployed, no that not new
At red light, Pico/Fairfax
Laid homeless drunk in my path
Wrinkled face, big beard and belly
Peacefully passed out, kind of smelly
Dinosaur-breath, lion-like snore
Dreams all night liquor stores
Roasting like Christmas turkey
Soon to become a stick of hobo-jerkey
THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT
THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT
THE DAY WAS HOT TOO HOT FOR FUN
NINETY-EIGHT IN SHADE, ONE-TWENTY-ONE IN THE SUN
COULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I COULD
SHOULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I SHOULD
BUT SOMEONE ELSE’LL HELP (WHO ) GOT TIME TO KILL
GOTTA GET THIS JOB, GOTTA PAY MY BILLS
THE DAY WAS HOT, THE DAY WAS HOT
Meeting for 3:00, was 2:15
Time (enough) to be Samaritine
Don’t get involved, (I) thought, ain’t my business
It wadn’t my fault, god be my witness
Could’ve dragged him out of the sun
Into the shade of some nearby shrub
Someone’ll help (who) got time to kill
But got to get this job to pay my bills
Light turned green, I’m on my way
But for big-belly drunk not a good day
The job, the job, the job had been taken
It’d been for nothing that I’d been baking
THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT
THE DAY WAS HOT………
THE DAY WAS HOT TOO HOT FOR FUN
NINETY-EIGHT IN SHADE, ONE-TWENTY-ONE IN THE SUN
COULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I COULD
SHOULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I SHOULD
BUT SOMEONE ELSE’LL HELP (WHO ) GOT TIME TO KILL
GOTTA GET THIS JOB TO PAY MY BILLS
THE DAY WAS HOT
Hour later, back at the corner
Now taped off in yellow border
In the middle man still asleep
But now his snores and dreams ceased
He done run out of his life’s lease
And while I dazed in confused thought
They put him in a truck and hauled him off
Like a dead dog with no tag
Nameless, buried in vagabond rags
His old leather face I will never forget
Another debit on my karmic debt
THE DAY WAS HOT
Missed my cue, life to save
For big-belly drunk not a good day
THE DAY WAS HOT
THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT
THE DAY WAS HOT THE DAY WAS HOT
THE DAY WAS HOT TOO HOT FOR FUN
NINETY-EIGHT IN SHADE, ONE-TWENTY-ONE IN THE SUN
COULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I COULD
SHOULD’VE SAVED HIS LIFE, KNEW THAT I SHOULD
BUT SOMEONE ELSE’LL HELP (WHO ) GOT TIME TO KILL
GOTTA GET THIS JOB, TO PAY MY BILLS
THE DAY WAS HOT, THE DAY WAS HOT
