The World Is Showing Its Hand - Jonathan Richman

When I first smelled the bus fume from the diesel motor

Well my two-year-old mind could only applaud such odor

The world is showing me it’s tricks

The world was showing it’s hand

Then an alley somewhere smelling of grease and piss

I was delighted that the world would wanna smell like this

The world is showing me it’s tricks

The world was showing it’s hand

Well the pond and the odor

The swamp and the sweat

Each smell is telling me a secret

So give me an alley

Give me an valley

Give me a Neapolitan night

Let me smell more of the world

And gain more insight

The world is showing me it’s tricks

The world was showing it’s hand

Yeah

So give me a mowed lawn

Give me a old song

Give me summer rain

Let me smell more of the world

Then I might learn something

The world is showing me it’s tricks

The world was showing it’s hand