Textbook Case - Chuck Prophet

He was a textbook case

There was no doctor in the house

When his aunt said leave

He left quiet as a mouse

He robbed from the poor

He gave to himself

Looked in the glass

And raised a toast to his health

He was a textbook case

But he could not read at all

He took a girl to eat

And he ran his fingers through her hair

When a car honked at her

He broke the antenna right there

When she walked she swayed

Like a tall stalk of corn

When she kissed him she wished

That he had never been born

He was a textbook case

But he could not read at all

Textbook case

All fall down

He was lost in space

Headed straight to the ground

Now he lies around the yard

Like a dog without a bowl

Starin' at the sun

Dreamin' of parole

The prison shrink just looked one time

And he shook his head

«Textbook case»

Was all that he said

He was a textbook case

But he could not read at all