story behind the song: watering holes and their denizens among other things
Lyrics
once upon a whirl wind
lived a pretty girl
prettiest woman
in the whole dang world
once upon that dreamed life
lived a cynical boy
thought better of marking time
marked the dreams to avoid
once upon a seraph in
she was an angel from on high
riding out of the lowlands
into an other surprise
once upon those quiet lines
of mountains and valleys beheld
the spectres of summer
in the winters of o'well
oh well
and everyone says that her dream was really nice
while tallying up her figure and calculating her price ...
once upon a pink elephant
that memory forged and forgot
the alabaster and stucco
over roses of oops i got lost
once upon that dusty road
the one they call real life
where the hopes of bought and sold
are butchered late at night
i'll take a piece of that
nice donkey ...
her friends tell her that's really all there is to this life
while counting out their bullets and sharpening their knives
everyone else says she's a dream, she's really nice
while tallying up her figure and calculating her price
once upon a pink elephant ...
i'll take a piece of that
nice donkey
