Lyrics Couch Potato - Sun Kil Moon

Couch Potato

Potatoes, potatoes, whiny goddamn couch potatoes
Potatoes, potatoes, whiny goddamn couch potatoes
And you’re hijacked by everything that pops up on your phone.
and you’re angry
about it for an hour until the news diverts your attention by throwing you
another bone.
And yeah, you’re justified in being angry the kids are being
pulled from their parents at the border, but when Obama had illegal immigrants
thrown out of the country left and right, y’all thought he was adorable.
Made you feel so good to love the smiling light-skin black man,
but like I said, illegals were being thrown out of the country under him.
I wrote a song once for an immigrant, years ago, who broke the law.
He had three kids.
Three kids and he was sent back to Mexico where his wife
and kids didn’t even get a phone call.
Under Obama, guys were getting sent back
to their birth places.
Y’all I sang that song for you, and you requested it at
my shows!
That song, if you all remember, was called Gustavo
Don’t give much thought to Gustavo
I don’t give much thought to Gustavo
I don’t give much thought-
You thought that song was funny.
You thought the song was sweet.
That it was cute, you didn’t think about those kids gettin' pulled from their
daddies much, did you?
But now your hearts hurt from the kids being pulled from
their mommies and daddies, aren’t you?
What’s been happening for years is just
now the news, just finally spin it in a way that alarms you.
This whole agenda
promotin' the orangutan who came from the zoo who’s gonna be the president
again, mark my words, thanks to the news and social media, and thanks to couch
potatoes called you.
They ain’t even human beings to the people who are on the
news.
Just (?) signs then, you’re just all just a bunch of junkies,
sniffin' their booze.
Sniffing whatever the anchor man decides to sell you
Sniffers, sniffers, bunch of goddamn booze sniffers
Sniffers, sniffers, bunch of goddamn booze sniffers
Sniffers, sniffers, bunch of goddamn-
I’m telling you people, if you keep pecking away at your phones,
Donald Duck gonna be in office eight years, cause of prophecy.
(350?).
Donald gonna be there, two full terms, that’s for sure.
So with the San
Francisco homeless, and so the (?) pimps and hoes.
I don’t mind the pimps and
hoes, and the bums pissin' in the alleys and nobody else did until San
Francisco sold its ass to Silicon Valley.
Now the rich want to be catered to,
they want perfection, they don’t want poverty in their streets.
But the poor gonna stick around, and in time, all the techies gonna retreat.
They never gave a fuck about the Golden Gate Bridge or the beautiful terrain
or by Cafe Trieste where they hate Ashberry, or the Jefferson Airplane.
They’ll be packing up and leavin' on the Google train.
Maybe move to
Jellystone Park, if we’re lucky, and they can cry to Yogi Bear about all the
pain.
Don’t get me wrong, do not think that I don’t care.
I’ve employed more
illegal immigrants than the average joe on his lunch break in Union Square.
I’ve given lots of pesos to kids in the streets of Guajaca, Mexico.
I bought their chapolinis every morning from their wooden bowls.
Me myself, I got an idea of how this president came to office.
People
believin' the predictions of Don Lemon as if he were Nostradamus.
People started givin' platforms to Paula Deen and Paris Hilton.
People started to believe in headlines that are as believableas bigfoot
sightings, and Rumpelstiltskin
This morning, I had a dream that I was with Caroline at a cafe.
Somewhere in
California, it felt like somewhere in Belinas, lots of daylight comin' through
the windows.
There was a band playing at the corner.
We met the drummer,
he kinda looked like Jack Kilmer.
He told us that his brother plays a
percussive instrument with strings, like guitar strings, they played most did
not sustain, but went pling pling.
he told us he was gonna drive some place
neary to pick up some drumsticks and he asked if we wanted to come along.
Caroline said «I'll stick around at the cafe», but I said I was up for the
ride if it wouldn’t take too long.
And we were drivin', I asked «where's your brother live?»
and he said Long Park.
And I said «Actually,
I’ve been there.
Does your brother play in the house band with the Long Park
wine factory?»
He said «Yes», and I said «Well, I think I’ve seen him play,
a long-haired guy?».
He said «that's him» and kept on driving and driving,
further and furter, and I asked him where he was going.
he said «To San Francisco.
You said you needed a ride, right?»
I said «No, man,
I thought we were going to your rehearsal space to get some drum sticks, right?
«He said «No, I’m heading to San Francisco, I thought you said that’s where
you live».
I said «I do, but hold on, stop the car, tell me we are,
you Jack Kilmer-faced kid».
He pulled over and I called Caroline and told her
where I was.
He dropped me off on the side of the side of the road somewhere in
Northern California, I waited for Caroline to pick me up.
And I woke up from
the dream, and I walked down to Aquatic Park
And from the pier, I looked out into the fog.
Soakin' up the air,
I could barely see Tiberun.
Fisherman were fishing on the East side of the
pier.
Every day it’s my pleasure to walk out here.
Three seals poke their heads
up from the water.
These beautiful things are why I moved here.
A man was
giving sailboat lessons to a younger man.
From there, I walked to Levi’s store
and bought a warmer jacket.
Nathan overslept and I went, and knocked on his
hotel door.
Past the City Lights bookstore and the North Beach Hotel.
I waited for him down in the lobby.
Watched a young girl ask the lady at the
front desk if she knew how to get to Yosemite.
And Nathan and I went and ate
sandwiches at Malinari’s.
We went to City Lights and I talked to one of the
employees.
I bought the book about the boxer from Modesto, Fat City.
I bought the book called Antisocial Media about how Facebook undermines
democracy.
Told the staff I was gonna post a photo of the book on my social
medxia pages and one of them said «that's funny.»
Then Nathan and I went to
Trieste, I got an iced tea, he got a coffee.
I said to the guy «I see you’re starting the day with the music of Air Supply.»
And we walked back
up the Point to the mural of Paul Kenton.
Passed City Lights again and in the
storefront was a huge selection of Bukowsky.
And we walked up through China
Town through Jack Kerouac Alley.
Bought some cucumbers and some blueberries.
Everything was harmonious and merry.
We walked past Le Hung Lao and I thought
of the chap (?) dumplings that are always delicious and savory.
Everything
reminded me of what it was about the city that first spoke to me.
And as we approached High Street Studio.
We tend to want the homeless as
they’ve always been, minding their own.
I sang about everything leading up to
waking up and walking to Aquatic Park.
All that must have been sparked by
articles my friend had sent me.
Sensational headlines and attention-grabbing
posts like «Medical convention was relocated from San Francisco to LA cause
doctors are scared».
«Last year at same convention, somebody’s purse was stolen»
.
«I'm from a third-world country, and San Francisco is worse».
«Norway valley,
shocked and disgusted by the homeless».
«Middle-age tech guys angry cause they
saw feces on the street corner once».
I don’t know what it is that they see or
feel.
I told him, man, there are places for people who can’t hack the city.
They are called «sotos» «(?)» or «(?)» or «Hercules».
All I know is this
morning, I saw the seagulls flying above me, and from there the day moved along
peacefully.
And here in the studio, I’m singing tunefully to the music of Jim
and Di and me, joyfully.
We took a break, went out for dinner.
The waitress
asked the guy at the table how he was doin'.
Said «The world’s all messed up,
but me, I’m doin' fine.»