Whatever It Was - Greg Brown

She’s got a slant 6 mind and a supercharged heart

The little princess is singing about her parts

She says, «Come hither», but when I get hither she is yon

I was looking for what I loved.

Whatever it was, it’s gone

TV spreads and tension mounts

Like a guy in a bra it’s the idea that counts

It’s a picture of a picture of a whore holding a picture of a john

I was looking for what I loved…

In the chemical fields by ammonia light

I would offer my prayer to the Corn Goddess tonight

But they chopped off her head and stuck her body out on the lawn

I was looking for what I loved…

My generation takes what it can get

Are you surprised that the kids are all upset?

They’re looking at Nothing and Nothing turns away and yawns

I was looking for what I loved…

Can’t go to the country — the country isn’t there

It got chopped up and mortgaged and vanished in thin air

It’s a paint-by-number and it costs a million bucks down at the pawn

I was looking for what I loved…

An electronic head and feet of clay

Gonna be a lotta roadkill on the Information Highway

Someone stole the video of the everfresh and lovely dawn

I was looking for what I loved…

You might be streetwise.

You might be real bad

I guess you forgot that you also are a dad

Your kids won’t forget it when they’re trying to find someone to lean on

I was looking for what I loved…

The little towns are lying on their faces

All that’s left are fading parking spaces

It’s been quite a week, there was a drive-by shooting in Lake Wobegon

I was looking for what I loved…

A Native American told me this whole deal’s a mistake

And this implosion is just icing on the cake

If the Great Spirit is gambling, I’d say the con is a bigger con

I was looking for what I loved…