In This Town - Rheostatics

All around… there’s a beautiful smell

And you can’t smell nothing else

It’s the smell… of everything that we expel

DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO

In this town… there are cars and truck

In this town are cars and trucks

In this world… are streets and avenues… (cars, trucks, cars…)

… And all around

There is mmm and AAH

All around there’s MMM and AAH

Then there’s this forgotten little murmur

They call nothing much at all…

You’re such a happening fish

Flopping on me;

Throughout all this time…

So complicated and unfree

From a young boy… with a tail

Into a fish with a b-book or two published

I love you… because you don’t know why

You don’t know why you feel resentful

And you weep…

And sometimes you are cruel

I love you… because you took a stand

For those of us who are the weaker

'Cause we’re not fakes

We are wild and we are screwed

You and I… might have a lot to learn;

But we’re shot out of the earth and we tumble into holes

In the interim we’re spinning and we don’t know how to fall

All the idiots WHO’RE talking don’t know anything at all…