这是一张很优秀的男女对唱专辑（附歌词）
这张专辑我之前给了四星，因为一直给分比较慷慨，所以四星的意思其实就是，好你妹的一般啊。
后来因为它一不小心进入了我的移动设备里，我没事儿就听听，有些歌是那种你听多了就烦掉了，但是《Port Of Morrow》绝对不是，让我从四星升到了大五星，且一直想着要写一篇吐槽一下这张神奇的专辑。
我之前绝对从来木有听过the shins的歌，对他们并不是很熟，貌似他们的风格应该有些转变吧，看到很多shins粉对这张专辑都不太适应，我不知道我可不可以说我这样的伪shins蜜更客观一点呢？
之所以说这是一张很优秀的男女对唱专辑，源于我们可爱的主唱大叔。
我经常，在夜深人静的夜晚，静静聆听这张专辑，听到内敛的，略带温暖磁性的主唱男声，本来刚想闭上眼睛蓝后浮想联翩。。。。。
蓝后，他就突然开高了一个八度，嗷嗷的动人嗓音略带妩媚的期许，让我不禁想到了哪个爵士女声。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
我当时就震精了！！！！！！！！！！！！！
我开始想，这是大叔和哪个菇凉一起合作的，找啊找，貌似木有。
我又开始想，大叔应该之前就这种唱法吧，开始搜度娘百科，我找到了这句话：
“主唱James Mercer的歌声总是一副义无反顾的傻劲，直催人心。”
我愣是没看出来他傻在哪，那明明是骚好吗！！！！！！！
我又又开始想，那就从骚这个着手点入手吧，我就开始股沟James Mercer gay什么的，木有消息。点开维基百科发现人家早结婚了，娃都生了俩。
专辑同名歌曲《Port Of Morrow》就很好的说明了这个问题，大叔一开始就依依呀呀甚是诱惑，这要是唱了现场该是个什么景象。。。。。。
个人非常喜欢《40 mark strasse》，前三首也非常好。整张专辑其实平庸还是很少见的。编曲也是我爱的类型。除了主唱嗓音稍显怪异，不过显然是我爱的那种，骚气十足，主唱分几句给个姑娘，那么这就是一张肥肠完美的男女对唱专辑。
我看我还要听好一会儿这张砖呢=。=
THE RIFLE'S SPIRAL
Dead land's collided.
You pour your life down the rifle's spiral
And show us you've earned it.
Cleric's fog will recede right before your eyes.
So long to this wretched form.
Down gray eyes on the subway.
Long before you were born
You were always to be a dagger floating
Straight to their heart.
Listen, now, we won't tell anyone.
But you're gonna tell the world.
So life ain't then any fun.
May this rail unfurl.
As you rise; rise from your burning fiat,
Go, go get my suitcase, would you?
You've thoroughly blown their mind.
And now I must have passage on the lines
To the veins from your heart.
You're not invisible, now.
You just don't exist.
Your mother must be so proud.
You sublimate yourself, drowning us of rich.
Primitive mirror on the wall,
to fortify your grim resolve.
And made the glitz of a shopping mall
another grain of indigent salt to the sea.
Go back to this wretched form
All them gray eyes on the subway
So long before you were born
you were always to be a dagger floating
straight to their heart.
SIMPLE SONG
Well, this is just a simple song,
To say what you done.
I told you 'bout all those fears,
And away they did run.
You sure must be strong,
And you feel like an ocean being warmed by the sun.
When I was just nine years old,
I swear that I dreamt,
Your face on a football field,
And a kiss that I kept,
Under my vest.
Apart from everything,
But the heart in my chest.
Chorus:
I know that things can really get rough,
When you go it alone.
Don't go thinking you gotta be tough,
And play like a stone.
Could be there's nothing else in our lives so critical,
As this little home.
My life in an upturned boat,
Marooned on a cliff.
You brought me a great big flood,
And you gave me a lift.
Girl, what a gift.
Will you tell me with your tongue,
And your breath was in my lungs,
And we float up through the rift.
Chorus:
I know that things can really get rough,
When you go it alone.
Don't go thinking you gotta be tough,
And play like a stone.
Could be there's nothing else in our lives so critical,
As this little home.
Well, this would be a simple song,
To say what you done.
I told you 'bout all those fears,
And away they did run.
You sure must be strong,
When you feel like an ocean being warmed by the sun.
Remember walking a mile to your house,
Aglow in the dark?
I made a fumbling play for your heart,
And the act struck a spark.
You wore a charm on the chain that I stole,
Especial for you.
Love's such a delicate thing that we do,
With nothing to prove,
Which I never knew.
IT S ONLY LIFE
Dyed in the wool, you've been cornered by a natural desire
You want to hop along with this giddy throng through life
But how will you learn to steer when you're grinding all your gears?
You've been talking for hours
You say "time will wash every tower to the sea"
And now you've got this worry in your heart
Well, I guess it's only life. It's only natural
We all spend a little while going down the rabbit hole
The things they taught you
They're lining up to haunt you
They've got your back against the wall
I call you on the telephone
Won't you pick up the receiver?
I've been down the very road you're walking now
It doesn't have to be so dark and lonesome
It takes a while but we can figure this thing out and turn it back around
You used to be such a lion
Before you got into all this crying on my lap
Back when you never thought I'd never get this far
But did you really think I'd shut the door?
The futures calling and I'm going to answer
The wheels in motion
I never drank your potion and I know it breaks your heart
Open up your parachute
Something's got to stop the free-fall
I've been down the very road you're walking on
It takes a while but we can figure this thing out and turn it back around
It doesn't have to be so dark and lonesome
NO WAY DOWN
He's the son of a government man
And a pillar of salt
I was born with blood on my hands
And have all the signs of a bleeding heart
Living high on a giant hawk
On a mountain so steep
Keep your head in a hollow log
As the ruling fog are about to creep
What have we done?
How'd we get so far from that sun?
Lost, lost in an oscillating phase
Where a tiny few catch all of the rays
Out beyond the western squalls
In an Indian land
They work for nothing at all
They don't know the mall or the layaway plan
Dig yourself a beautiful grave
Everything you could want
Maybe those invisible slaves
Are too far away for a ghost to haunt
What do we charge
Letting go of a claim so large
All, all of our working days are done
But a tiny few are having all of the fun
Get used to the dust in your lungs
Is there no way down
From this peak to solid ground
Without having our gold teeth
Pulled from our mouth
Make me a drink strong enough
To wash away this dishwasher world, they said was lemonade
Walk with me after the show
Maybe we can find a way through the minefield in the snow
What are they charged?
Letting go of a claim so large
All, all of our working days are done
But a tiny few are having all of the fun
Apologies to the sick and the young
Get used to the dust in your lungs
SEPTEMBER
Into this strange elastic world
Pontus kindly gave up a pearl
Of his eternal stone and mud
Ain't she lovely bone and blood
Born of the seaaaaaaa
A thousand miles away from me
A court of angels, a ward of the sun
A future forming, a curse undone
Under our softly burning lamp she
Takes her time
Telling stories of our possible lives
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes
I've been selfish and full of pride
She knows deep down there's a little child
But I've got a good side to me as well
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
A song in the tree has distracted her mind
Some other curious form of life
Has made its presence to her known
And she coos so gently, soft and low
Her shining face in a million reflections
On tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
Over our city like notes from above
It overwhelms me, just ain't that tough
Its not that the darkness can't touch our lives
I know it will in time, but she's no ordinary valentine
And know when the sun goes down she sheds a darling light
I've been selfish and full of pride
She knows deep down there's a little child
But I've got a good side to me as well
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
BAIT AND SWITCH
I finally had all my ducks in a row
Peace and quiet by means of subtraction
How she got in i'm not sure that I know
But two weeks on and my spine was in traction
My eyes in a basket
My gut and my heart are so out of phase,
and that kind of girl she ain't nobody's daughter
I'm just not used to these powerful waves
she's shining the brass and i'm taking on water
What am I to do now?
i call on a beautiful witch, with a moral compass
Bait and switch
Hide from my physic deraileur
Drive this car to the sea
Spend the night as high as i can
In a towering hemlock
but it's no use
I can always be found
A creature of habit has no real protection
I tell her i'll leave if she don't settle down
she see's it's a lie on closer inspection
Like everyone else does
Been rubbing a terrible charm
Holding smoke in my arms
I'm just a simple man
Cursed with an honest heart
Watch her go and tear it all apart
''awesome guitar solo''
Been rubbing a terrible charm
Holding smoke in my arms
I'm just a simple man
Cursed with an honest heart
Watch her go and tear it all apart
FALL OF '82
I do relate to you in so many ways
But I didn't you through what you must have had in those early days.
You had to be strong at such a very young age
A new life from lemonade.
So won't you listen?
To me now.
Something I never told you, that I'm about to try
See, you were my life line when the world was exploding, yeah.
You moved back in with us in the fall of 82
I fell into dark times and you were there to help me through.
You told me that a downturn would eventually improve
and you were right, so I'm thanking you.
So won't you listen?
To me now.
Something I never told you, that I'm about to try
See, you were my life line when the world was exploding
footholds eroding
Had you never been my friend,
I wouldn't be quite what you see
I wouldn't be the man I am.
-Instrumental-
Sister, you've known me
lost in a strange world.
What had it shown me?
What had it gone through?
Sister, you've known me
been lost in a strange world
But what has it shown me?
But what has it done?
October Chill in that old dust town.
Halloween came, I was still feeling down.
Mama lost my sweet tooth, what's the point in going 'round?
your boy is losing count
maybe try the lost and found.
FOR A FOOL
Young and bright
But now just a dim light off in the distance.
A fallen stone
Following the path of least resistance.
If I still fight
It's just that I'm afraid I'll slide under that spell again.
Taken for a fool,
Yes I was because I was a fool.
Tell me what you'd do,
Lost my way when she took me to school.
So many times
Caught up in my head at night with a leash and a label.
If I could learn
Anything from this then I'd be like
The fox in the fable all right
If I still fight,
It's just that I'm afraid I'll slide under that spell again.
The way we used to carry on
Is stuck in my head like a terrible song.
Taken for a fool,
Yes I was and I was a fool.
Following the rules
Guess I wasn't very honest too.
Taken for a fool,
Yes I was because I was a fool.
40 MARK STRASSE
Is it all so very simple
And horribly complex
You're suffering
And there's nothing coming next
Your mom smokes in the kitchen
Her voice a cutting drown
They're creeping out, you pass the bar
Your father's second home
That leaves you on your own
Nights I'd often watch you
Float across the ground
Out the gate to the motorway
What secrets have you found?
You had to know I wanted
Something from you then
Too young to know just what it was
Something more than a friend
Is that you at the end
Well, you play in the street at night
You blow like a broken kite
My girl, you're giving up the fight
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/40-mark-strasse-lyrics-the-shins.html ]
Are you gonna let these Americans
Put another dent in your life?
My mother says your dirty
They're gonna find you dead
But have you got that final chapter
Written in your head
Cause every single story
Is a story about love
Both the overflowing cup
And the painful lack thereof
You got the heart of a dove
But you play in the street at night
You blow just like a broken kite
My girl, you're giving up the fight
You'll have to lose all them childish notions
If you're gonna let these American boys
Put another dent in your life
You play in the street at night
You blow just like a broken kite
My girl, you're giving up the fight
You'll have to lose all them childish notions
Are you gonna let these Americans
Put another dent in your life?
PORT OF MORROW
Through the rain and all the clatter
Under the Fremont bridge I saw a pigeon fly
Fly in fear from the raptor come to take its life
And as it closed in for the capture
I funneled the fear through my ancient eyes
To see in flight, what I know are the bitter mechanics of life
Under my hat it reads "the lines are all imagined"
A fact of life I know to hide from my little girls
I know my place amongst the bugs and all the animals
And it's from these ordinary people you are longing to be free
My hotel and on the TV
A preacher on a stage like a buzzard cries
Out a warning of phony sorrow, he's trying to get a rise
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/port-of-morrow-lyrics-the-shins.html ]
The cyanide of an almond
Let him look at your hands, get the angles right
Ace of spades, port of morrow, life is death is life
I saw a photograph: Cologne in '27
And then a postcard after the bombs in '45
Must've been a world of evil clowns that let it happen
But now I recognize, dear listeners
That you were there and so was I
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Under my hat I know the lines are all imagined
A fact of life I must impress on my little girls
I know my place amongst the creatures in the pageant
And there are flowers in the garbage, and a skull under your curls
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
后来因为它一不小心进入了我的移动设备里，我没事儿就听听，有些歌是那种你听多了就烦掉了，但是《Port Of Morrow》绝对不是，让我从四星升到了大五星，且一直想着要写一篇吐槽一下这张神奇的专辑。
我之前绝对从来木有听过the shins的歌，对他们并不是很熟，貌似他们的风格应该有些转变吧，看到很多shins粉对这张专辑都不太适应，我不知道我可不可以说我这样的伪shins蜜更客观一点呢？
之所以说这是一张很优秀的男女对唱专辑，源于我们可爱的主唱大叔。
我经常，在夜深人静的夜晚，静静聆听这张专辑，听到内敛的，略带温暖磁性的主唱男声，本来刚想闭上眼睛蓝后浮想联翩。。。。。
蓝后，他就突然开高了一个八度，嗷嗷的动人嗓音略带妩媚的期许，让我不禁想到了哪个爵士女声。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
我当时就震精了！！！！！！！！！！！！！
我开始想，这是大叔和哪个菇凉一起合作的，找啊找，貌似木有。
我又开始想，大叔应该之前就这种唱法吧，开始搜度娘百科，我找到了这句话：
“主唱James Mercer的歌声总是一副义无反顾的傻劲，直催人心。”
我愣是没看出来他傻在哪，那明明是骚好吗！！！！！！！
我又又开始想，那就从骚这个着手点入手吧，我就开始股沟James Mercer gay什么的，木有消息。点开维基百科发现人家早结婚了，娃都生了俩。
专辑同名歌曲《Port Of Morrow》就很好的说明了这个问题，大叔一开始就依依呀呀甚是诱惑，这要是唱了现场该是个什么景象。。。。。。
个人非常喜欢《40 mark strasse》，前三首也非常好。整张专辑其实平庸还是很少见的。编曲也是我爱的类型。除了主唱嗓音稍显怪异，不过显然是我爱的那种，骚气十足，主唱分几句给个姑娘，那么这就是一张肥肠完美的男女对唱专辑。
我看我还要听好一会儿这张砖呢=。=
THE RIFLE'S SPIRAL
Dead land's collided.
You pour your life down the rifle's spiral
And show us you've earned it.
Cleric's fog will recede right before your eyes.
So long to this wretched form.
Down gray eyes on the subway.
Long before you were born
You were always to be a dagger floating
Straight to their heart.
Listen, now, we won't tell anyone.
But you're gonna tell the world.
So life ain't then any fun.
May this rail unfurl.
As you rise; rise from your burning fiat,
Go, go get my suitcase, would you?
You've thoroughly blown their mind.
And now I must have passage on the lines
To the veins from your heart.
You're not invisible, now.
You just don't exist.
Your mother must be so proud.
You sublimate yourself, drowning us of rich.
Primitive mirror on the wall,
to fortify your grim resolve.
And made the glitz of a shopping mall
another grain of indigent salt to the sea.
Go back to this wretched form
All them gray eyes on the subway
So long before you were born
you were always to be a dagger floating
straight to their heart.
SIMPLE SONG
Well, this is just a simple song,
To say what you done.
I told you 'bout all those fears,
And away they did run.
You sure must be strong,
And you feel like an ocean being warmed by the sun.
When I was just nine years old,
I swear that I dreamt,
Your face on a football field,
And a kiss that I kept,
Under my vest.
Apart from everything,
But the heart in my chest.
Chorus:
I know that things can really get rough,
When you go it alone.
Don't go thinking you gotta be tough,
And play like a stone.
Could be there's nothing else in our lives so critical,
As this little home.
My life in an upturned boat,
Marooned on a cliff.
You brought me a great big flood,
And you gave me a lift.
Girl, what a gift.
Will you tell me with your tongue,
And your breath was in my lungs,
And we float up through the rift.
Chorus:
I know that things can really get rough,
When you go it alone.
Don't go thinking you gotta be tough,
And play like a stone.
Could be there's nothing else in our lives so critical,
As this little home.
Well, this would be a simple song,
To say what you done.
I told you 'bout all those fears,
And away they did run.
You sure must be strong,
When you feel like an ocean being warmed by the sun.
Remember walking a mile to your house,
Aglow in the dark?
I made a fumbling play for your heart,
And the act struck a spark.
You wore a charm on the chain that I stole,
Especial for you.
Love's such a delicate thing that we do,
With nothing to prove,
Which I never knew.
IT S ONLY LIFE
Dyed in the wool, you've been cornered by a natural desire
You want to hop along with this giddy throng through life
But how will you learn to steer when you're grinding all your gears?
You've been talking for hours
You say "time will wash every tower to the sea"
And now you've got this worry in your heart
Well, I guess it's only life. It's only natural
We all spend a little while going down the rabbit hole
The things they taught you
They're lining up to haunt you
They've got your back against the wall
I call you on the telephone
Won't you pick up the receiver?
I've been down the very road you're walking now
It doesn't have to be so dark and lonesome
It takes a while but we can figure this thing out and turn it back around
You used to be such a lion
Before you got into all this crying on my lap
Back when you never thought I'd never get this far
But did you really think I'd shut the door?
The futures calling and I'm going to answer
The wheels in motion
I never drank your potion and I know it breaks your heart
Open up your parachute
Something's got to stop the free-fall
I've been down the very road you're walking on
It takes a while but we can figure this thing out and turn it back around
It doesn't have to be so dark and lonesome
NO WAY DOWN
He's the son of a government man
And a pillar of salt
I was born with blood on my hands
And have all the signs of a bleeding heart
Living high on a giant hawk
On a mountain so steep
Keep your head in a hollow log
As the ruling fog are about to creep
What have we done?
How'd we get so far from that sun?
Lost, lost in an oscillating phase
Where a tiny few catch all of the rays
Out beyond the western squalls
In an Indian land
They work for nothing at all
They don't know the mall or the layaway plan
Dig yourself a beautiful grave
Everything you could want
Maybe those invisible slaves
Are too far away for a ghost to haunt
What do we charge
Letting go of a claim so large
All, all of our working days are done
But a tiny few are having all of the fun
Get used to the dust in your lungs
Is there no way down
From this peak to solid ground
Without having our gold teeth
Pulled from our mouth
Make me a drink strong enough
To wash away this dishwasher world, they said was lemonade
Walk with me after the show
Maybe we can find a way through the minefield in the snow
What are they charged?
Letting go of a claim so large
All, all of our working days are done
But a tiny few are having all of the fun
Apologies to the sick and the young
Get used to the dust in your lungs
SEPTEMBER
Into this strange elastic world
Pontus kindly gave up a pearl
Of his eternal stone and mud
Ain't she lovely bone and blood
Born of the seaaaaaaa
A thousand miles away from me
A court of angels, a ward of the sun
A future forming, a curse undone
Under our softly burning lamp she
Takes her time
Telling stories of our possible lives
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes
I've been selfish and full of pride
She knows deep down there's a little child
But I've got a good side to me as well
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
A song in the tree has distracted her mind
Some other curious form of life
Has made its presence to her known
And she coos so gently, soft and low
Her shining face in a million reflections
On tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
Over our city like notes from above
It overwhelms me, just ain't that tough
Its not that the darkness can't touch our lives
I know it will in time, but she's no ordinary valentine
And know when the sun goes down she sheds a darling light
I've been selfish and full of pride
She knows deep down there's a little child
But I've got a good side to me as well
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
BAIT AND SWITCH
I finally had all my ducks in a row
Peace and quiet by means of subtraction
How she got in i'm not sure that I know
But two weeks on and my spine was in traction
My eyes in a basket
My gut and my heart are so out of phase,
and that kind of girl she ain't nobody's daughter
I'm just not used to these powerful waves
she's shining the brass and i'm taking on water
What am I to do now?
i call on a beautiful witch, with a moral compass
Bait and switch
Hide from my physic deraileur
Drive this car to the sea
Spend the night as high as i can
In a towering hemlock
but it's no use
I can always be found
A creature of habit has no real protection
I tell her i'll leave if she don't settle down
she see's it's a lie on closer inspection
Like everyone else does
Been rubbing a terrible charm
Holding smoke in my arms
I'm just a simple man
Cursed with an honest heart
Watch her go and tear it all apart
''awesome guitar solo''
Been rubbing a terrible charm
Holding smoke in my arms
I'm just a simple man
Cursed with an honest heart
Watch her go and tear it all apart
FALL OF '82
I do relate to you in so many ways
But I didn't you through what you must have had in those early days.
You had to be strong at such a very young age
A new life from lemonade.
So won't you listen?
To me now.
Something I never told you, that I'm about to try
See, you were my life line when the world was exploding, yeah.
You moved back in with us in the fall of 82
I fell into dark times and you were there to help me through.
You told me that a downturn would eventually improve
and you were right, so I'm thanking you.
So won't you listen?
To me now.
Something I never told you, that I'm about to try
See, you were my life line when the world was exploding
footholds eroding
Had you never been my friend,
I wouldn't be quite what you see
I wouldn't be the man I am.
-Instrumental-
Sister, you've known me
lost in a strange world.
What had it shown me?
What had it gone through?
Sister, you've known me
been lost in a strange world
But what has it shown me?
But what has it done?
October Chill in that old dust town.
Halloween came, I was still feeling down.
Mama lost my sweet tooth, what's the point in going 'round?
your boy is losing count
maybe try the lost and found.
FOR A FOOL
Young and bright
But now just a dim light off in the distance.
A fallen stone
Following the path of least resistance.
If I still fight
It's just that I'm afraid I'll slide under that spell again.
Taken for a fool,
Yes I was because I was a fool.
Tell me what you'd do,
Lost my way when she took me to school.
So many times
Caught up in my head at night with a leash and a label.
If I could learn
Anything from this then I'd be like
The fox in the fable all right
If I still fight,
It's just that I'm afraid I'll slide under that spell again.
The way we used to carry on
Is stuck in my head like a terrible song.
Taken for a fool,
Yes I was and I was a fool.
Following the rules
Guess I wasn't very honest too.
Taken for a fool,
Yes I was because I was a fool.
40 MARK STRASSE
Is it all so very simple
And horribly complex
You're suffering
And there's nothing coming next
Your mom smokes in the kitchen
Her voice a cutting drown
They're creeping out, you pass the bar
Your father's second home
That leaves you on your own
Nights I'd often watch you
Float across the ground
Out the gate to the motorway
What secrets have you found?
You had to know I wanted
Something from you then
Too young to know just what it was
Something more than a friend
Is that you at the end
Well, you play in the street at night
You blow like a broken kite
My girl, you're giving up the fight
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/40-mark-strasse-lyrics-the-shins.html ]
Are you gonna let these Americans
Put another dent in your life?
My mother says your dirty
They're gonna find you dead
But have you got that final chapter
Written in your head
Cause every single story
Is a story about love
Both the overflowing cup
And the painful lack thereof
You got the heart of a dove
But you play in the street at night
You blow just like a broken kite
My girl, you're giving up the fight
You'll have to lose all them childish notions
If you're gonna let these American boys
Put another dent in your life
You play in the street at night
You blow just like a broken kite
My girl, you're giving up the fight
You'll have to lose all them childish notions
Are you gonna let these Americans
Put another dent in your life?
PORT OF MORROW
Through the rain and all the clatter
Under the Fremont bridge I saw a pigeon fly
Fly in fear from the raptor come to take its life
And as it closed in for the capture
I funneled the fear through my ancient eyes
To see in flight, what I know are the bitter mechanics of life
Under my hat it reads "the lines are all imagined"
A fact of life I know to hide from my little girls
I know my place amongst the bugs and all the animals
And it's from these ordinary people you are longing to be free
My hotel and on the TV
A preacher on a stage like a buzzard cries
Out a warning of phony sorrow, he's trying to get a rise
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/port-of-morrow-lyrics-the-shins.html ]
The cyanide of an almond
Let him look at your hands, get the angles right
Ace of spades, port of morrow, life is death is life
I saw a photograph: Cologne in '27
And then a postcard after the bombs in '45
Must've been a world of evil clowns that let it happen
But now I recognize, dear listeners
That you were there and so was I
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Under my hat I know the lines are all imagined
A fact of life I must impress on my little girls
I know my place amongst the creatures in the pageant
And there are flowers in the garbage, and a skull under your curls
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
