Ships A'Going Down - The Residents

Why not live?

The catbird shrilled!

And give a guy a chance!

For soon the moon will sing a tune and I’ll be left to dance

Well, strangers have left on longer trains before

Yes, shake and shout and cause a spout to be a mockery!

Exist inside a lemon drop and cause no word to be

If after all this oleo a speck of dust exists

We’ll set aside a common tide 'twixt friend and who he’s kissed

He thought the end was overdue, but day broke him instead

And consequently what he read was never what he said

And don’t you never

Said the ever Enigmatic Foe

Lose your cool, or after school

They’ll find me home in bed

What hoe you rake you fake a taking and a mating moo;

Confuse to use and quick to break are simple rules to you

Why send a curly head to bed and know her secrets too?

Glue it down you dripping clown, and be not busy, too;

If a needy, if a seedy lets him come on through

Keys are not thrust open spores, and neither is a broken store!

There are clothes that haven’t been worn

Feet that haven’t been shorn

There’s causes that haven’t been given a principle

Need I say more?

The soft spoken edge was a close fit

With the warped open cracks so many

The quick brain drained the main

And the ships a goin' down me mates

The ship she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

Down down down down down

Down down down down down

The quick brain drained the main

And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys

The ship she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

Down down down down down

Down down down down down

The quick brain drained the main

And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys

The ship she’s a goin' down

The ships she’s goin' down me mates

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

Down down down down down

Down down down down down

The quick brain drained the main

And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys

The ship she’s a goin' down

The ships she’s goin' down me mates

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

Down down down down down

Down down down down down

-ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The ship' she’s a goin' down

The quick brain drained the main

And the ships she’s a goin' down, boys

The ship she’s a goin' down

Down down down down down

Down down down down down