Part Three: Ship's a'Going Down

by The Residents

From the album: Not Available

Duration: 10:08

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Lyrics for Part Three: Ship's a'Going Down

Why not live? The catbird shrilled! And give a guy a chance! For soon the moon will sing a tune and I'll be left to dance Well, strangers have left on longer trains before Yes, shake and shout and cause a spout to be a mockery! Exist inside a lemon drop and cause no word to be If after all this oleo a speck of dust exists We'll set aside a common tide 'twixt friend and who he's kissed He thought the end was overdue, but day broke him instead And consequently what he read was never what he said And don't you never Said the ever Enigmatic Foe Lose your cool, or after school They'll find me home in bed What hoe you rake, you fake a taking and a mating Moo; Confuse to use and quick to break are simple rules to you Why send a curly head to bed and know her secrets too? Glue it down you dripping clown, and be not busy, too; If a needy, if a seedy lets him come on through Keys are not thrust open spores, and neither is a broken store! There are clothes that haven't been worn Feet that haven't been shorn There's causes that haven't been given a principle Need I say more? The soft spoken edge was a close fit With the warped open cracks so many The quick brain drained the main And the ships a goin' down me mates The ship she's a goin' down The ship' she's a goin' down

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