
Date of issue: 25.06.2001
Record label: Rounder
Song language: English
Don't Leave The Lava Lamp On For Me |
Overweight 60's rock star, staring from the TV screen |
Begging the youth of America, to live a life that’s sober and clean |
But the kid’s 17 in a ganja haze, this summer he’s following Phish |
Watching the aging rock star, coming through his satellite dish |
Don’t you do that blow, all around the world |
Don’t you make that dough, don’t you make them girls |
Am I even getting through to you son? |
Do like I say. |
Don’t you do like I done |
She’s a yellow rose of Texas, she’s smiling from the crowd |
The message is the medium and man that guy talks loud |
He tells her that it’s Earth Day and he loves all mankind |
She gives that talking unicorn her body, soul and her mind |
That American flag, you must invert |
As the sweat pours down his Mexican wedding shirt |
He leads her to oblivion |
Now the Rose is dead and he’s long gone |
Don’t you leave that lava lamp on for me |
Don’t need a walk down memory lane |
I’ve had enough of that sorrow and pain |
Through your orange globs a-churning |
There’re body bags and cities burning |
Don’t you leave that lava lamp on for me |
401 North Broad Street, I’m standing in my underwear |
Turn your head and cough son, then go stand over there |
But me I’ve got my letters and my middle class élan |
I give some ghetto black boy his ticket to Saigon |
Say hello to Vietnam |
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