Goon Show

Lyrics for Goon Show

There's a small town with a long path And an old panopticon Where the bodies of the screws hang from extension cords I see a company of crisis actors Run lines on the lawn Making misery porn to warn the hoards of ivy It's the golden age of arseholes And the triumph of disgrace How them winds turned cornfields into rags Yeah, I've seen the cell phone footage And it's raining cats and dog-ma You can roll a bank but you don't really rob the bank 'Cause if they lose, they win And all they need's the wind That blows where people wave their flags at people wavin' flags Hold me forever A sign of the cross and the sun Oh, holdin' forever A shadow that we can't outrun It's like bein' at a party Where the party's always right And I was not plannin' on goin' out tonight But I'll grab some pepper spray from Kmart Chuck a ski mask in my bag And then scream an incantation, change the colour of the sky And admirin' my complexion in the shop window reflections I go where people wave their flags at people wavin' flags You gotta face the hits What with the upper crusts and hunches Left-right goodnights and all the other kinds of punches Cause if you lose, you win And all you need's the wind That blows where people wave their flags at people wavin' flags Holdin' forever Makin' a fist of your thumbs Oh, hold me forever Don't let them cut out your tongue See everybody scream and shout You don't know what you're missing now They don't know what they're missin' Hold me forever A shadow that we can't outrun Oh, holdin' forever Say you won't block out the sun See everybody scream and shout They don't know what they're missing now They don't know what they're missin'