BEEF SUPREME LYRICS

1. Jim Jones Country

Can I get a hallelujah, can I get an amen?
Lemme tell you how we done it here since way back when
People get a bad idea, then they try it again
Pretty sure it must be something in the water

Do it for Jesus or do it for free
Keep a round in the chamber, and save one for me
So now let's take a peek behind door number three, and we'll see
Hot damn, this is Jim Jones country, baby!

Even back in the beginning, I knew that something was wrong
People shaking hands and smiling and just playing along
Even then, I knew we couldn't keep this charade up long
Even then, I knew they kinda shouldn't oughta

So let's raise a glass to the soon to be past
Bottoms up real quick 'cuz it's gonna go fast
Take a good look around, 'cuz this ain't gonna last, here we go
Hot damn, this is Jim Jones country, baby!

2. The Smart And The Lucky

Wary glares from across the room
Icy stares slice through the gloom
Let me whisper in your ear
Lean in close so you can hear

For the smart, and the lucky...

Now they say the sky will fall
End the good days for us all
Lean in close next to your ear
Whisper soft so they can't hear

For the smart, and the lucky
There's always room

Let them point, and let 'em gawk
All they know to do is talk
Let my fingers brush your hand
Somewhere out there's promised land

For the smart, and the lucky
There's always room

3. Amasia

Houses where we used to live
Cities where we must've been
Hundreds of memories, thousands of memories, that I still can't picture myself in

Cities built on coral reef
Calendars carved in bas relief
Hundreds of days, thousands of years
Frozen in single moments

[pre-chorus]
Good news, well, the past can be erased
Given the earth's relentlessly shifting face
What in the world have we been working for
When all we have to do is wait some more?

[chorus]
You'd never have known there was ocean between us once

Strip malls now instead of woods
Bare lots where the school stood
It all looks different, all smells different,
Can't even recognize it

Render all my memories false
Hollower than sheet rock walls
Grind them to dust and blow them away and
No one would ever notice

[pre-chorus]
Good news, well, the past can be erased
Given the earth's relentlessly shifting face
What in the world have we been working for
When all we have to do is wait some more?

[chorus]
You'd never have known there was ocean between us once

4. Death Shuts Its Mouth

A shiny vine that climbs up the side and grinds all the mortar out
A tiny worm that winds through your mind and tunnels deep throughout
A photograph in fading color, a bruise that's yet to bloom
Death slowly shuts its mouth and ups to leave the room

A little shiver that soon proves feverish, shaking, sweating for air
A magician's swift illusion, a hope that was never there
A scalpel in a shaking hand, a clotting pool of doubt
Death slowly shakes his head, 'cuz he'll sit this one out







BEEF SUPREME LYRICS