Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Cobwebs , by - Loudon Wainwright III. Song from the album Grown Man, in the genre ПопRelease date: 31.12.1994
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
Cobwebs |
| Well it stumbles and it falls off of almost every tongue |
| Give a listen and you’ll hear |
| It’s workin' like a landmine in almost every sentence |
| It’s an assault to my mind’s ear |
| Yeah it might have started back with Jack Kerouac |
| Probably more than likely it was Maynard G. Krebs |
| It’s the 4 letter word that used to mean 'as if' |
| And the meaning’s covered in cobwebs |
| Cobwebs |
| Used to be a preposition then it was a conjunction |
| Now it’s used as an audible pause |
| Oh I hate it when I hear it especially when I see it |
| Gotta stamp it out there ought to be some laws |
| College boys valley girls mall rats grandmammas |
| Everybody’s mis-usin' that word |
| I heard it four times in one poor little sentence |
| It was the saddest sound I ever have heard |
| Cobwebs x3 |
| I suppose you could blame it on my generation |
| Chickens from the 60s finally comin' into roost |
| I’ve been sayin' it myself for over 30 years now |
| Just to give my cool quota just a little bitty kind of a boost |
| But when I hear it |
| I can’t stand it |
| Especially coming out of the mouths of one of my own kids |
| It’s been taught and, God |
| What have we wrought? |
| Give a listen here, what do we dig? |
| I prefer ah or er |
| You can rest assured |
| If you’re sayin' what you mean then it don’t mean a thing |
| It’s just an ugly little 4 letter word |
| Doesn’t anybody care or am I the only one? |
| Am I just stuck back in some kind of a past? |
| Maybe it’s harmless but it feels like a virus |
| And it sounds like it’s catchin' on fast |
| Cobwebs x2 |