Lyrics Ships A'Going Down - The Residents

Ships A'Going Down

Why not live?
The catbird shrilled!
And give a guy a chance!
For soon the moon will sing a tune and I’ll be left to dance
Well, strangers have left on longer trains before
Yes, shake and shout and cause a spout to be a mockery!
Exist inside a lemon drop and cause no word to be
If after all this oleo a speck of dust exists
We’ll set aside a common tide 'twixt friend and who he’s kissed
He thought the end was overdue, but day broke him instead
And consequently what he read was never what he said
And don’t you never
Said the ever Enigmatic Foe
Lose your cool, or after school
They’ll find me home in bed
What hoe you rake you fake a taking and a mating moo;
Confuse to use and quick to break are simple rules to you
Why send a curly head to bed and know her secrets too?
Glue it down you dripping clown, and be not busy, too;
If a needy, if a seedy lets him come on through
Keys are not thrust open spores, and neither is a broken store!
There are clothes that haven’t been worn
Feet that haven’t been shorn
There’s causes that haven’t been given a principle
Need I say more?
The soft spoken edge was a close fit
With the warped open cracks so many
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships a goin' down me mates
The ship she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys
The ship she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys
The ship she’s a goin' down
The ships she’s goin' down me mates
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys
The ship she’s a goin' down
The ships she’s goin' down me mates
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down
-ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The ship' she’s a goin' down
The quick brain drained the main
And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys
The ship she’s a goin' down
Down down down down down
Down down down down down