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 didn't throw them at the kids So I was a good guy I remember yellin hi Too loo rye It's the day before I die So why Too loo rye Cause everybody is walking by? Oh hi Too loo rye It's 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 rye Tomorrow I could die So i'm gonna climb the pines and have myself 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 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, I'm Stanley and the squirrel the invisible light, I'm a lover liar, humble fire, im a little spider and a chicken on the wire Climbin trying sighin cryin laughin highfivin slowly dyin But I swear now thats alright, yeah I swear now thats alright, mother I'm alright