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You Miss the Point Completely, I Get the Point Exactly

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Five, four, three, two—
One awkward conversation can ruin my whole day
in the company of strangers
with some vulgar shit to say
Cocktail hour social like an obsolete machine
Spitting anecdotes and boring jokes
from someone else’s spleen

And I always seem to miss the point completely
(and here I am again)

Culture baron trainwreck and it’s hard to look away
But I’m yawning like a kid in a carpet store1
Refusing to be interesting is a funny way to go
but I guess you know your business—
you’re the one who makes the windstorm blow

And I always say I miss the point completely
(and here I am again
here I am again)
And I always wish you’d behave more discreetly
it’s kind of a puzzle
but you’re falling into place
(it’s what you do best)

You’re a popular opinion
You’re an easy thing to foster
You’re an ostentatious tourist
You’re a predictable posture
You are a record left on the dashboard
You’re a nasty little hang

You miss the point completely
I get the point exactly
You miss the point completely
I get the point exactly
No you miss the point completely no I get the point exactly no
      you miss the point completely no you miss the point-a!

(Intermède Français en noir et blanc d'apres J-LG)2

  1. Footnote #8 in the KJV CD liner notes: Save literally. ↩

  2. French interlude in black and white after J-LG, from the 2×LP liner notes. The CD liner notes simply have (interlude français). ↩

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SCN: Notable for its long title, and the weird coda at the end, one of the few instances I can recall of the four of us really enjoying working together and having fun on the record; love the Rhodes that drives the song; kid in a carpet store was me, being taken shopping by my maternal grandmother, a woman who REALLY took her time selecting remnants; “windstorm” is a Seattle-specific reference to Windstorm ’95, a notorious all-night local news non-event (original line: you’re the one who makes the mainstream flow, but I chickened out); lyrics spell out my exact state of mind at the time: paranoid, accusatory, self-righteous, but fully certain that my observations are not only objective, but universal; good times!10A

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