Wednesday Lyric Blogging

Last night I was flipping through iTunes and started listening to some of my old Cracker albums. Listening to David Lowery made me think about Camper Van Beethoveen and I thought, “I need an upbeat, absurd, fun song. From there, “Take the Skinheads Bowling” was obvious. Bonus: You Tube of the video from MTV’s 120 Minutes.


"Take the Skinheads Bowling"
by Camper Van Beethoveen
from Telephone Free Landslide Victory

Everyday I get up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks by exactly one
Everybody's coming home for lunch these days
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn

Chorus: Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling.
Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling.

Some people say that bowling alleys have big lanes (have big lanes X 2)
Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same (all the same X 2)
There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with same (anything X 2)
Had a dream last night but I forgot what it was about (what it was X 2)

(chorus)

Had a dream last night about you my friend
Had a dream I wanted to sleep next to plastic
Had a dream I wanted to lick your knees
Had a dream it was about nothing

(chorus)
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