《Cobwebs》歌词

[00:00:01] Cobwebs - Loudon Wainwright III

[00:00:12] Well it stumbles and it falls off

[00:00:13] Of almost every tongue

[00:00:14] Give a listen and you'll hear

[00:00:16] It's workin like a landmine

[00:00:17] In almost every sentence

[00:00:18] It's an assault to my mind's ear

[00:00:20] Yeah it might have started back

[00:00:21] With Jack Kerouac

[00:00:22] Probably more than likely it

[00:00:23] Was Maynard G. Krebs

[00:00:24] It's the 4 letter word

[00:00:26] That used to mean 'as if'

[00:00:27] And the meaning's covered in cobwebs

[00:00:33] Cobwebs

[00:00:38] Used to be a preposition then

[00:00:39] It was a conjunction

[00:00:40] Now it's used as an audible pause

[00:00:42] Oh I hate it when

[00:00:43] I hear it especially when I see it

[00:00:44] Gotta stamp it out there

[00:00:45] Ought to be some laws

[00:00:46] Boys College valley girls mall

[00:00:48] Rats grandmammas

[00:00:48] Everybody's misusin that word

[00:00:56] Cobwebs

[00:00:59] Cobwebs

[00:01:03] Cobwebs

[00:01:09] I suppose you could blame

[00:01:10] It on my generation

[00:01:13] Chickens from the 60s finally

[00:01:15] Comin into roost

[00:01:18] I've been sayin it myself

[00:01:19] For over 30 years now

[00:01:22] Just to give my cool quota

[00:01:24] Just a little bitty kind of a boost

[00:01:27] But when I hear it

[00:01:28] I can't stand it

[00:01:31] Especially coming out of the mouths

[00:01:33] Of one of my own kids

[00:01:35] It's been taught and, God,

[00:01:38] What have we wrought?

[00:01:40] Give a listen here, what do we dig?

[00:01:46] I prefer ah or er

[00:01:48] You can rest assured

[00:01:50] If you're sayin what you mean

[00:01:51] Then it don't mean a thing

[00:01:53] It's just an ugly little 4 letter word

[00:01:55] Doesn't anybody care or am

[00:01:55] I the only one?

[00:01:56] I just Am stuck back

[00:01:57] In some kind of a past?

[00:01:59] Maybe it's harmless

[00:02:00] But it feels like a virus

[00:02:01] It sounds And like

[00:02:02] It's catchin on fast

[00:02:03] Cobwebs

[00:02:07] Cobwebs

[00:02:12] Well it stumbles and it falls off

[00:02:13] Of almost every tongue

[00:02:14] Give a listen and you'll hear

[00:02:16] It's workin like a landmine

[00:02:17] In almost every sentence

[00:02:18] It's an assault to my mind's ear

[00:02:20] Yeah it might have started back

[00:02:21] With Jack Kerouac

[00:02:22] Probably more than likely it

[00:02:23] Was Maynard G. Krebs

[00:02:24] It's the 4 letter word

[00:02:25] That used to mean 'as if'

[00:02:26] And the meaning's covered in cobwebs

[00:02:32] Cobwebs

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