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An Old Joke of Mine

from Lowbelly and Friends by Lowbelly

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lyrics

At this house, in a new town,
A big place in this neighborhood
I always dreamed of
I sat on a porch and watched
The circus of party-goers downstairs
Just watching them as they went
From distant, to cold,
To just plain hostile.

They ran a bus between us,
And separated us,
Things got confusing at this point,
Leaving me with a short anorexic girl
Who's told me for some reason,
Which I can't remember for the hostility,
And says, "come back here."

It's daylight now and I'm
On the outside of a brick structure,
An old Civil War style garage apartment
With no doors, holes ten or eleven inches square
For cannons and things apparently;
I can't get in there,
And talk through these holes,
And see, amazed that the person
Actually fits through them;
It must be a contortionist trick

As I try to figure it out,
Staring at huge wads of knotty stiff canvas
Being pulled and shoved through it,
The person who brought me back there
To tease me about it -
Not being able to fit in the hole -
Went about going through the daily things,
No longer caring that I'm there.

The people demanded the old paint cans
In the basement of Dad's old house;
It was useless garbage, probably dried,
But I just didn't like being bullied.
They could have asked but I said no,
Very polite-like.
It was night, the party-goers back there.
K. and I sat in the room with the piano;
They were all in the yard outside.

Outside the window, I saw them:
Just a good group of clean-living middle-aged
Yuppies, being less and less subtle
About the hostility of their motives,
But as yuppies are,
They had none of their alcohol or drugs.

One of the little girls played,
Running around the tree,
Oblivious.
Maybe she was evil too...
I don't know.

credits

from Lowbelly and Friends, released June 9, 1998
composed by T. Andreas, J. Miller, E. Smith
Jeremy: guitar, rainstick
Tristan: bass, drums, guitar, macho guiro, triangle
Ethan Smith: vocals
Gordon Frisbie: lead guitar at coda

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