Basket Case Lyrics

Basket Case lyrics

by Warren Zevon and Carl Hiaasen



My baby is a basket case

A bipolar mama in leather and lace

Face like an angel--she's a perfect waste

My baby is a basket case



Dracula's daughter, Calamity Jane

Smoke on the water, water on the brain

She's pretty as a picture--and totally crazed

My baby is a basket case



She's gonna make a madman outta me

She's gonna make a madman outta me



She's manic-depressive and schizoid, too

The friskiest psycho that I ever knew

We're paranoid lovers lost in space

My baby is a basket case



My baby's gonna celebrate

I'm being dragged through the nuthouse gates

Got my straitjacket on and I'm taking her place

My baby is a basket case



She finally made a madman outta me

She finally made a madman outta me

My baby made a madman outta me

She finally made a madman outta me