Warren Zevon — Basket Case lyrics

Lyrics

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