Lyrics Smug - Steve Taylor

Smug

Strike this little pose
Chin up in the air
Lips together tightly
Nostrils in a flare
Now look like you care
Ooh, very nice!
Practice in the mirror
Brushing back a tear
Very sincere
A promising career could begin right here at home
If you’ve got that smug
That smug
Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become
Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?
Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?
Is it in our blood?
Rome is burning, we’re here turning smug
Strike another pose
Power politics
Swallow their conventions
Get your power fix
We love to mud wrestle
We love to be politically Koreshed
Practice that smug
Post it like a man
One part Master Limbaugh
Two parts Madame Streisand
Now pretend you’re in a band
My, my, we’re looking smug
Very, very, very, very
Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become
Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?
Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?
Is it in our blood?
Rome is burning, we’re here turning smug
All you smug-starved millions in the thick of the search
Welcome to our church
Whatcha wanna solve?
We can help you evolve
From merely self-righteous
To perfectly smug
Strike the proud pose of our country-club brethren
Friendly as a tomb
Fragrant as the bottom of a locker-room broom
Now what’s the matter?
Hey, get off your knees
That part don’t come 'til later
God will not be pleased
Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become
Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?
Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?
Is it in our blood?
Rome is burning, we’re here turning smug
Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become
Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?
Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?
Is it in our blood?
Rome is burning, we’re here turning
Rome is cooking, my, we’re looking smug
I wanna talk today about smug people!
They think they’re so good.
They ain’t good!
No, they ain’t good at all, I tell you what!
You wanna be a
good man, you look at me!
I’m gonna talk to you about humility--'cause I got it!
I wanna talk to you about righteousness--'cause I got it!
I’m good!
I’m humble!
I’m better than you!
You wanna be a humble man, you look at me, you say, «Brother, how can I be humble?»
I don’t know how you can be humble!
It took me a long time to get this way!
But thank God I’ve arrived!
Let’s pray