Fresno Chunk (Digging With You)

Oh won’t you search with me all through the night
I've been digging through a junk piles most of my life
And I never found nothing, but something to do
And I’m doing alright now, I’m digging with you

Doin' nothing in Fresno but coming down fast
I ran out of ways of making it last
So I paced around the house I was staying that night
And I couldn’t find nothing but a broken flashlight

My answer drove up in a old pickup truck
By the end of the driveway she’s picking through junk
I stammered, I asked her how much for that light?
She said "it ain’t for sale, ‘cause I need it tonight"

"Oh this is the time when us scavengers roam"
She pointed to junk piles in front of each home
Said "come with me, search for a light of your own
And we’ll meet my friends and we can get stoned"

I said "nice to meet you" when I looked in her eyes
She was probably forty, she looked more like sixty-five
A mother and a daughter with some stories to tell
20 years searching refuge for used things she could sell

She spoke of the son, she’d left him with her sister when he was only 9
But she still sends him letters, letters, letters from time to time
"And he never writes back?", "no he never writes back"
I said, "I’m sure he’s fine"
You say you hope he plays football
I said "maybe that’s what we’ll find"

[Chorus]
Oh won’t you dig with me all through the night
I've been digging for something most of my life
And I never found nothing but something to do
But I’m doin' alright now, digging with you

We drove droned out suburbs, California laid to waste
The way time stays steady, steady, through the tide of our tastes
We found a cabbage patch doll, a pack of playing cards
A torn Superman cape
And she cut up all her drugs on a desk that had three legs

A circle of trucks like an indian camp
I eat your amphetamines and everybody danced
By a fire we're building a totem of trash
Stack an old fan on a play-set
And a Halloween mask
And a ray gun with a broken trigger
Some dark sun glasses

[Chorus]
Oh won’t you dig with me all through the night
Digging for something most of my life
And I never found nothing but something to do
I’m doin' alright now, digging with you

[Solo]
And I started to shiver, want out of my skin. Too much heavy lifting in my veins paper thin. She told me "Walk to east if you must, but don't let the sun burn your eyes."And she left me an address and I swore I would write....

[Bridge]
And I thank you for the story I promised to tell
I know it means nothing, but I hope you’re well
I’m sorry my letter, it hasn’t come still
But I never wrote you and I never will

(Chorus)
Oh won’t you dig with me all through the night
Digging for something most of my life
And I never found nothing but something to do
I’m doin alright now, digging with you