Wake Up! - Les Savy Fav

This house is an ancient tomb

Be warned

Born in 1974

With the blood stains on the door

This house is a monument

You see

Erect in 1983

In memory of what you’ve done to me

This house is a freight train

And it’s mine

Back in 1989

They found my body on the Morris-Essex line

A cord, accord

A car, a call

The hospital said it would

Gladly repay it all

I’m born, I’m bored

I’m not at all

This body needs an overhaul

The blast from the cannon

Was more than they could take

And ever since that summer

They’ve been something of a flake

We pray for them at dinner

We pray for them at dawn

We pray that when they grow up

That they’ll be dead and gone

We pray that they will pass us by

But they keep coming on

Wake up!

I’m coming over

Watch the way the milk has curdled in the cradle

There’s a rattle underneath the kitchen table

We’re ignoring it as best as we are able

But the air in there is static and unstable

There’s a rapping at the door