When I think of you Baton Rouge
  I think of a Mariachi band
  I think of sixteen and a crisp green football field
  I think of a girl I never had
  
  When I think of you Baton Rouge
  I think of a back seat in a car
  Windows are foggy and so are we
  as the police asked for our I.D.
  
  So helpless
  so helpless
  
  Ooohhh, ooohhh, so helpless
  ooohhh, so helpless
  Ooohhh, so helpless
  so helpless
  
  Well I once had a car lost it in a divorce
  the judge was a woman of course
  She said give her the car and the house and your taste
  or else I set the trial date
  
  So now when I think of you Baton Rouge
  and the deep southern belles with their touch
  I wonder where love ends and hate starts to blush
  in the fields in the swamps in the rush
  
  In the terra-cotta cobwebs of your mind
  when did you start seeing me as a spider spinning web
  Of malicious intent and you as poor, poor me
  at the fire at the joint, this disinterred and broken mount
  in the bedroom in the house where we were unmarried
  
  So helpless, so helpless
  so helpless
  So helpless, so helpless
  so helpless
  
  When was I the villain in your heart
  putting the brake on your start
  you slapped my face and cried and screamed
  that's what marriage came to mean
  The bitterest ending of a dream
  
  You wanted children and I did not
  was that what it was all about
  You might get a laugh when you hear me shout
  you might get a laugh when you hear me shout
  I wish I had
  
  
  So helpless, so helpless
  so helpless
  So helpless, so helpless
  so helpless
  
  Sometimes when I think of Baton Rouge
  I see us with two and a half strapping sons
  One and a half flushed daughters preparing to marry
  and two fat grandsons I can barely carry
  
  Daddy, uncle, family gathered there for grace
  a dog in a barbecue pit goes up in space
  The dream recedes in the morning with a bad aftertaste
  and I'm back in the big city worn from the race of the chase
  what a waste
  
  So thanks for the card the announcement of child
  and I must say you and Sam look great
  Your daughter's gleaming in that -
  - white wedding dress with pride
  sad to say I could never bring that to you that wide smile
  
  So I try not to think of Baton Rouge
  or of a, of a, of a Mariachi band
  Or of sixteen and a crisp green football field
  and the girl, and the girl I never had
  
  So helpless, so helpless
  so helpless
  So helpless, so helpless
  so helpless