Songs for Judy - Intro

I just have this song I gotta sing for you

I finally think I found it

Oh, I know all those old songs, really, I still know "The Changes"

And sometimes I feel like a green Wurlitzer

I love it when ya, you know, when you ask me for those old songs and everything, but

It's funny 'cause what keeps you alive is what kills you, you know

And you get, too much of the old shit you know, uh, good night

So here's a song I wrote especially for you

Especially you loud boisterous mothers out there, I can hear ya

Just pretend you can hear that old pool hall clankin' in the background

I know you can relate to this song

It's a song I wrote about myself

It's called "Too Far Gone"

Even though there've been -

Maybe nine songs with the same title in the last two years

I don't let things like that bother me

If I'm too far gone, I got the right to say it, right?

Okay, just checkin' with ya

It's 'cause of this abyss here

It's 'cause of this hole between us that I have to keep -

Re-re-affirming ourselves, ya know

Like I sh-

Here we go anyway

I was gonna tell you somethin', about -

I was gonna tell you somethin', but -

Okay, alright I'll tell ya, okay?

Then I'll do the song

We'll be here- a long time

Okay, that's not it, that's not it

Just think of this as George burns his cigar

When I look down here in the pit

When I did an earlier show tonight

I just wanna tell you that, uh

I don't know if any other artists who ever play here

I use the word, uh, loosely, uh

Before us told you this, but uh, down in the pit there, uh

Right down in here

Can I have a little light on that so that people can see?

Uh, can you light up the pit, please?

Well anyway, I wanna tell ya folks

You don't have to be able to see me to hear what I'm saying

What I'm gonna tell you is, I saw Judy Garland down there tonight earlier

She was wearing a red dress, with red lipstick

And she had some, yeah uh, little bit of music with her right here, uh

One of those music folios, it said "Somewhere over the rainbow"

Had a picture of her as a little girl looking up at me with the blue sky behind her

And there she was, Judy Garland in a red dress with a -

Piece of music and she looked up and she said

"How's the business, Neil?"

You don't have to believe me