6. Some of the LYRICS

all these lyrics © David McKelvey and Elvis Was a Truckdriver

SPOT THE TRENDS EARLY

Take it slow take it slow take it slow.
There's a season called "resort" ©
Take it slow.

Wedged just before holiday
And comin' right after spring
Spot the trends early and you're gonna swing
On in to the season called resort ©

Take it slow take it slow take it slow take it slow take it slow

You got a black duster coat coverin' a white trouser skirt
Its a big contender for the resort holiday spring flirt
Yes it's simple, sits basic, it's fabric adaptable to you
Spot the trends early the trends early
And you're gonna swing on through

Cool your thermostat with some day time ware
You gotta major length and peepon shine,
No gel in your hair
Lookin' ahead to beaded embroidery don't flash it all in one bed
Just spot the trends early and you'll be a whole year ahead.

Spot the trends early © spot'em and you'll see
Spot the trends early © spot'em and you'll be
Spot the trends early © spot'em where they're gonna bleed
Spot the trends early © season's in resort

Spot the trends early there's a season called resort
Just wedged in before holiday and right after spring
Spot the trends early © and you'' ll be a whole year ahead
Spot the trends early © just take a step outta bed
Spot the trends early © come and sit on my leg
Spot the trends early © and we'll lay a big egg
Spot the trends early © there's a season called resort
Spot the trends early © gonna be a big cavort
Spot the trends early © and we gonna get down

Spot the trends early ©
You don't have to spend it all in one place
Split it up go here go there for a 10th of the pace
Take a stitch make a daytime look
It's not gonna be too cold
With what you already lost
You're not gonna be TOO Bold

The continental traditional feels are gonna be right the fuck OUT
Shrimp and peach and all galore are gonna be right the fuck IN
We're gonna have a resort holiday spring
All purpose ware that's gonna be OUT and IN
Spot the trends early.



I LOOKED THE AYATOLLAH RIGHT IN THE EYE

I looked the Ayatollah right in the eye.
You gotta kiss my ass Translation. "good morning."
Hoji got Pravis by the beard
Teeth are stickin' plum out of his badass face
Know what i mean?
You're closer than the rest to the action
Bottle of wine and a crayfish plate'll take the words right outta your mouth.
I shaked his hand good and he started spillin it all.
Billboards on sunset boulevard and we're 99% home.

I saw the glitter in his eye.
He dug cruz shit at me,
Then "Oh Tod You're a genius but where's Castro's ID?
The Ayatollah a classic picture. He can take a photie without a camera
Go Yankees Go Yankees Go
It's in the bag Bob
It's in the bag
I looked the Ayatollah right in the eye.




IMAGINE A DAY AT THE END OF YOUR LIFE

sometimes i feel totally subsumed by it ALL
the wife the two kids i only wanted FIVE
Drugs and drink and disfigurement
allison she's too PLAIN
And denise has talent but she married too young gave it all UP
Afternoons at the remington,
haystacks and Massmurder Balls
Mysteries being written as we drive across the US
And what does it get us but a dirty hotel room
Filled with typewriter output and pale pillow paper
I'm spoiled by Harriet's fun

We got a dirty dozen policeman for library acquaintances
Everybody undervalues my time
The girls are good natured but I don't notice a thing
Now Michael he's the latest problem
Take the trip its too blurry
Don't give us any trouble and take off that furry
Face that looks like it just got in from a pretty wild west

I drove out in the woods to Batesville
Just to look at the BIRDS
The sky was blue the tree was bark
Why isn't everybody walking' around the same way I am mortally mystified
40 years of marriage why can't i commemorate that with anything but a hospitalization program
You're not decrepit, you're not in pain
Nothing's happening at all the ground is solid
Can't you see you're only a temporary phenomena
SO imagine that you aren't there any longer
Earlier in the evening the silver flys had been required
They get back then suddenly you fuck it all up
From the sky like fallen leaves at once consumed
Imagine that day at the end of your life
I drove out in the woods to Batesville
Just to look at the BIRDS

But it's getting cold and the colour's going fast
From the leaves.
There's a few
far©a©field missing persons that we don't know about
Don't talk to relevance to me cause I got nothin' but Memories of collections of stamps from a different time.
Imagine that day at the end of your life
I drove out in the woods to Batesville
Just to look at the BIRDS


WANDERING WITH THE SWANS

Wandering with the swans
One bird to fly
One bird to keep
Held close with your souls
Take some care now
Some things take more than one day
More than a rented sword
More than a tent pitched
Lightly
On the edge of an idea
More than a half act play
(So) Sharpen your step
Think before you write
But write
The swans won't sing again.....
Till after the intermission.



WATCHING AND WASTING

Watching and wasting
Dutiful and beautiful
Watching and wasting
Conforming while performing
Watching and wasting
All just so and oh just oh
Watching and waiting
Taking all the steps
All of the precautions
Two at a time
Watching and waiting
Never feeling the strings
The strings all those things
Just watching and waiting
For what can't come
If you're watching
or
Waiting.


PANORAMIC BLUE GOAT

Panoramic blue glow
covers another TV night
Listless chipping
a heart bleeding quietly
in the refrigerator.

Spiders are eating
the life
that used to be in this place
Laughter startles the mold.

Don't make any noise
This is all there is
Reading a sentence
Punctuated by
Washing the car
Feeding the dog
Washing the dog
Feeding the car
Switching channels
Buying a Polaroid
Putting it in a drawer
Never using it again
Painting even in the corners
A list too big to count

And not a damn thing on it.

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