Adrian Belew

Late last night
I was speaking with my wife
when she turned into a momur
tried to put me uptight
I said "You don't scare me"
then she let out a scream
that's when my heart started jumpin'
like a broken t.v.

She was a momur and it was just like I told ya'
she said "You better watch out, I might bite a big hole in ya'"

The very next morning
I was watching cartoons
when I thought I saw a momur
it was you know who
well, she backed me in a corner
tried to kill me with a broom
and shouted personal remarks
from across the living room

She was a momur and it was just like I told ya'
she said "You better watch out, I might bite a big hole in ya'"

Late last night
I was speaking with my wife again
when she turned into a momur again
tried to put me uptight again
she took me favorite guitar
and she smashed it on the floor
when she danced around on top of it,
I thought I might get sore

She was momur

There I stood in the night
out on the broken pier
me with my feet in the sea
you with your face in the clouds,
the man in the moon
and as I heard your voice,
felt your laugh
flood across the broken pier
I wanted to die right then and there

You smiled down across the waves
as if to say to me
"Everything will be okay,
be strong and true"
and I felt your eyes
like the tide
pulling me out into the air
for a moment in time
you held me there,
father and son,
home again'

Swingline throughout the backyards of the midwest
lean back, baby, in your seat on the train
look through the window pane

Look at that kid over there with no underwear
and a silly dog who doesn't care
his mother stretches to reach the clothes line
while a mean neighbor leans on the population sign

Non-stop through the backyards of the midwest
eavesdrop, baby, from your seat on the train
look through the window pane

Some kinda Buick left in a stream
it used to be somebody's' dream
a town stares at the summer heat waves
past a smooth afternoon,
ready to close for the day

Jet set ski shop quasi silver Porche jacket
bleached blonde forty-dollar Foster Grant
capped teeth two-inch eyelash
pseudo gamma delta doll
Adidas in heat

Beer slob Saturday addict pops another top
"Kill that sonovabitch," he screams at the t.v.
the thrill of victory, the agony of my feet
Adidas in heat

Sports awareness T-shirt
sports awareness T-shirt
you have the paraphenelic regaliaof an athletic supporter

Forced to wear this T-shirt
sports awareness T-shirt
you have the paraphenelic regalia
of an athletic supporter

Yes, he was a fish head
his frontal lobe a retread
he rode a little motor scooter
they said he was a neuter
tried to be a masher
he was a failure as a flasher
what made it most regrettable
he thought he was incredible

Here I come, yeah, look at me now
I'm a smooth operator, I'm a mood elevator
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now

Yes, he was a fish...sandwich
unfortunate case of brain damage
his modus operandi,
a burger and a french frie
his mother was a plumber
his father was a momur
he walked around a lot and took long naps

Here I come, yeah, look at me now
I'm a smooth operator, I'm a mood elevator
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now
here I come, hey, look at me now
I'm a stimulator, I'm a tax evader
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now

Yes he was a fish head, as stable as a waterbed
for fear of pantaphobia he moved to Ethiopia

Here I come, yeah, look at me now
I'm a stimulator, I'm a space invader
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now

She's demure...Friendly...Loving and good-looking
Good-looking and wealthy
She is tall, pretty, thin blonde
A loving person, great personality, fun to be with
Independent, gorgeous, rich, powerful
Liberal yet she's very romantic
Of course, she'd have to have the perfect figure...

Everywhere she goes she's beautiful
Everyone I know says she's beautiful
And I deram about her even in my sleep
Everyone I meet says she's beautiful...

Blonde hair, blue eyes, about 5' 6"
Well,blonde about 5' 8"
Blonde about 5' 9"
36" 24" 36"

Everywhere she goes she's beautiful
Everyone I know says she's beautiful
And I deram about her even in my sleep
Even with her clothes on she's beautiful...

Not necessarily beautiful, but...

Lovely...Sexy...She's contagious
Talented...Creative...Controllable
Very fashionable... Good religious woman
She's extremely mobile
Silent...Electrostatic... Enigmatic
My wife...My mother
Pretty with hairy legs...

Everywhere she goes she's beautiful
Everyone I know says she's beautiful
And I deram about her even in my sleep
Even with her clothes on she's beautiful...

You're a monster, baby
you're a super killer
I want to be wiff you, I love ya
you're a super monster killer
show me your rhino thang

Well, maybe you're thinkin' I'm outasight
'cause I know you saw me kickin' at the gig last night
maybe, baby, that's why they call
twang bar king

Rip bash smash, burn up a fret
I can keep it in tune and nearly beat it to death
yes, baby baby, that's why they call me
twang bar king

Well I can bash smash beat rip tear out the guts
burn it up and make it scream
yeah, yeah, yeah

Ooohhh, listen, baby
I ain't braggin' but I'm the twang bar king
twang bar
king

Come singing, saying praise
her beauty lives
she is not dead

Although I must walk alone
I am part of her
if I must hurt anything
it will not be her

Come singing, saying praise
her beauty lives
she is not dead

What happens to her
happens to me
what happens to her
happens to me

Although I depart alone
from our great earth
she has given more
than I can return

Come singing, saying praise
her beauty lives
she is not dead

I recall as a boy we would hop the freights
wasn't nothin' but a kick back then
there was no better thrill for my anxious heart
than a long flatcar
headin' out of the yard
and I knew even then she was in my blood
like the time when I first hired on
and the fireman laughed at my bony nose
but he tossed me a cap
said GM&O
and I was a man...

I gave her my best years
well, what can you do but laugh
I don't expect she'll ever be coming back

When we climbed up the great Appalachians
her engines would be raging like hell
then we'd come back down to the rising towns
where the cattle stare
in the frozen air
For me there nothing more sacred
than the beautiful sound she'd make
her long blue signal blowin' deep in the night,
it would get to me there,
it would get to me there
Now I'm afraid...

Afraid of these silent hours
awake underneath my old cap
I don't expect she'll ever be coming back

Well, I watched the beginning of the end for her
when I saw my first jet airplane
flying high overhead like a bird of prey
while the mighty fell
in the land of the brave
Now I'm alone.