Icky Thump lyrics

I'm calling out to ghosts
That are no longer there.
I'm getting hard on myself,
Sitting in my easy chair.
Well there's three people
In the mirror
And I'm wondering
Which one of them I should choose.
But I can't keep from laughing
Spitting out these three hundred m.p.h.
Outpour blues.

I'm breaking my teeth off
Trying to bite my lip.
There's all kinds of redheaded women

She was 16 and 6 feet tall
In a crowd of teenagers comin' out of the zoo.
She stumbles down to slip and fall
Teeter tottered on the top of patent leather shoes.
I happened to catch her and said,
"Maybe these ruby shoes are alittle cumbersome for you,
maybe for you now."

But not as shaky as I must have seemed,
Talkin' junk through her giggle, little teenage dream.

Hey,Hey look closer, you can see how I been runnin' it
I got a dollar bill in the cockpit
Surprised being white is a black hole?
I got another job at the liquor store damn!

Oh well I'm bone broke, hey

They got a white pony in a stable
And ride him when the doggie isn't able
But he don't really care because they pay him
But still a black suit is gonna shake him down

(If you go looking for hot water
Don't act shocked when you get
Burned a little bit)

If you really want some hot water
I can help you find it

Oh
Oh
Ah yeah

Well if they catch me around
You're playing rock the boat
I'm gonna catch hell

And if you're throwing your voice
In bed singing a note
I'm gonna catch hell
I know it

Yes, alright
Try and catch me

Oh yeah

Tricky, tricky
Yeah

Oh
Oh

Cooooonqueeest
he was out to make a conquest
didn't care what harm was done
just as long as he won
the prize

Coooooonqueeest
she was just another conquest
didn't care whose heart was broke
love to him was a joke
till he looked into her eyes

and then in the strange way things happen
their roles were reversed from that day
the hunted became the huntress

I guess you have to have a probelm
If you want to 'vent a contraption
Well you cause a trainwreck
And then you put me in traction
First came an action
And then a reaction
But you can't switch around
For your own satisfaction
Well you burnt my house down
And then got mad at my reaction

Well in every complicated situation
There's a human relation
To make sense of it all

I'm slowly turning into you
But you don't know this
Tell the truth
You say I'm lying and I never really tell you the truth
But your face is getting older
So put your head on my shoulder
Yeah, put your head on my shoulder

Yesterday it hit me that I do all the little things
That you do
Except the same little things that you do are annoying
They're annoying as hell in fact

Yah-hee, icky thump
Who'd-a thunk?
Sittin' drunk
On a wagon to Mexico

Ah well,
What a chump
And my head
Got a bump
When I hit it on the radio

Red-head señorita
Lookin' dead
Came to said,
"Need a bed?" en español

[I] Said, "Gimme [a] drink of water
[I'm] gonna sing around the collar
And I don't need a microphone"

[guitar solo]
[synthesizer solo]

Well every highway that I go down
seems to be longer then
the last one that I knew about
Oh well

And every girl that I walk around
seems to be more of an illusion than
the last one that I found
Oh well

And this old man in front of me
holding canes and wearing ruby rings
is like containing an explosion when he sins
but with every chance to set himself on fire

Singing
Li De Li De Li Oh Oh
Well A Li De Li De Li Oh Oh
Li De Li De Li Oh Oh
Well A Li De Li De Li Oh Oh

Well the hills are pretty and rollin'
But the thorn is sharp and swollen
And the man plays a beautiful whistle
But he wears a prickly thistle

Singing
Li De Li De Li Oh Oh
Well A Li De Li De Li Oh Oh
Li De Li De Li Oh Oh
Well A Li De Li De Li Oh Oh

[Jack & Meg:]
Rag & Bone!
Rag & Bone!
Rag & Bone!
Rag & Bone!

[Jack:]
Meg, look at this place
This place looks like a mansion!
It's like a mansion, look at all this stuff!
Look, I see something over there.

We got you here selling rag and bone
Bring out your junk and we'll give it a home
A broken trumpet or a telephone
Ah, come on, come on, come on
Come and give it to me

Yeah!

This battle is in the air
I'm looking upwards
Where are the angels?
I'm not in my home

St. andrew don't forsake me
St. andrew
Don't forsake me

Who is here to greet me?
The children are kind
I'm not in my home
I travel backwards in ecstacy
Where ar ethe angels?
Don't forget me

St. andrew
I've been true
What do I need to say?
What do I need to say?

In some respects
I suspect you've got a respectable side
When pushed and pulled and pressured
You seldom run and hide
But its for someone else's benefit
Not for what you wanna do
Until I realize that you've realized
I'm gonna say these words to you

You don't know what love is
You do as you're told
Just as a child at ten might act
But you're far too old

In some respects
I suspect you've got a respectable side
When pushed and pulled and pressured
You seldom run and hide
But it's for someone elses benefit
Not for what you wanna do
Until I realize that you've realized
I'm gonna say these words to you

You don't know what love is
You do as you're told
Just as a child at ten might act
But you're far too old