Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Simple Men, artist - Momus.
Date of issue: 05.12.2019
Song language: English
Simple Men |
The simple men live the simple life in big log cabins |
They’re best of friends with a simpleton and a horse called Dobbins |
Their yards resound with the simple sound of blackbirds and robins |
And their wives make simple samplers with thimbles and bobbins |
We envy them, the simple men |
The simple men we envy them |
We envy the simple men |
They’re terribly superstitious, fear the ghost and the gollum |
They sit in a chair in the mountain air and breathe in the pollen |
Their tweeds and plaids are homespun adorned with a sporran |
They’re always at war with the valley folk because they are foreign |
We envy them, the simple men |
The simple men we envy them |
We envy the simple men |
Funny how it seems the more that we evolve |
The more the basic problems of our lives get solved |
The more we yearn for harder, simpler times back when |
We envy them, the simple men |
Their pigs have lice and their rats have mice and their dogs have rabies |
They dig in the muck to make graves they mark with the names of their babies |
They beat their wives, it serves them right it’s in Deuteronomy |
And for their simple daughters they reserve clitorectomy |
We envy them, the simple men |
The simple men we envy them |
We envy the simple men |
Funny how the symbols of humanity |
Turn out to be the images of brutality |
Projecting soul on the soulless again |
We envy them, the simple men |