Humility on Parade [live in studio]
Recorded July 15, 2006
Release history
- Dead Sea Scrolls (2009)
Alternate version of
Credits
- Written by Harvey Danger, © But Mom I Love Music (ASCAP)/Famous Music
- Guitar by Aaron Huffman
- Organ by Rob Knop
- Drums by Michael Welke
Lyrics
This road leads to Rome, that road leads to ruin.
I’m all up in the madding crowd,1
the general’s been screwing us around.
The land’s no longer arable
the farmhands all feel terrible
A river red with rebel blood to sweep us off our feet
do you remember?
Humility on parade
humility on parade
The welcome was overstayed
Humility on parade
let it run, let it run, let the river run
The remnants of the leisure class will crumble!
Smug bastards will be humbled!
Forcible miscegenation!
No bow ties, no invitations!
Goodbye to all that…2
You gotta look the prisoners in the eyes
a boldness in their stare you might not recognize.
as you struggle to recall your name:
family and christian, family and christian…
Family and christian!
Untenable position!
Here comes the inquisition!
(“it’ll come, it’ll come, it’ll surely come!”)3
I am the mustard on the wedding dress
the weevil in the watercress.
I lost the language, I confess.
Beyond the false horizon lies the rising up4
the rising up.
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Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), and/or the 1967 film adaptation. ↩
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Robert Graves’s autobiography Good-bye to All That (1929). ↩
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“It will come, it will come, it will surely come.” — Brian Eno, “King’s Lead Hat” (Before and After Science). ↩
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“Beyond the blue horizon lies the rising sun.” — “Beyond the Blue Horizon”, a song written by Leo Robin, Richard Whiting, and Franke Harling, and performed by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1930 film Monte Carlo. ↩
Notes
- Recorded at Avast! by Kurt Bloch.