Nearest Thing to Hip-The Waterboys

[ti:Nearest Thing to Hip] [ar:The Waterboys] [al:Modern Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Nearest Thing to Hip - The Waterboys (水孩子) [00:12.67]There used to be a café a few blocks away [00:15.72] [00:16.26]Open seven days called The Brilliant Mistake [00:19.73] [00:25.32]Where a crow-haired girl with scarlet lips [00:28.73]And slender hips served up coffee and cake [00:32.75] [00:37.97]On a crackling stereo the ghosts of Sun Ra [00:41.31] [00:41.96]Charlie Parker Miles and Coltrane blew [00:45.62] [00:50.82]I'd kick back in my chair [00:52.54]That sweet honey'd jazz [00:54.51]In the air the sun shining through [00:57.48] [00:58.18]It was the nearest thing to hip [01:00.36] [01:01.36]It was the nearest thing to hip [01:03.30] [01:03.86]In this shithole and it's gone [01:07.84]It was the nearest thing to hip [01:09.82] [01:11.05]In was the nearest thing to hip [01:13.00] [01:13.58]In this shithole and it's gone [01:17.82] [01:29.69]Everywhere that I go [01:31.15]I see streets that are low [01:32.88]On distinction and high [01:34.56]On the banal and the bland [01:36.72] [01:42.49]How did we get to this [01:44.44]We plumbed the abyss [01:45.84]By the twisted grace of the law [01:48.50]Of supply and demand [01:50.23] [01:55.45]Well there's no use crying and no use sighing over [01:59.61]Stone wood wire glass and cement [02:03.22] [02:08.63]But there's a little record store with a wooden floor [02:11.92]That ain't there no more that I used to frequent [02:14.78] [02:15.84]It was the nearest thing to hip [02:17.93] [02:19.13]In was the nearest thing to hip [02:21.50]In this shithole and it's gone [02:25.55]It was the nearest thing to hip [02:27.36] [02:28.61]In was the nearest thing to hip [02:30.56] [02:31.14]In this shithole and it's gone [02:36.07] [02:48.24]Now I need to get out of this hullabaloo [02:53.38] [02:54.73]And I remember an old-fashioned old bar [02:57.42] [02:58.08]That I once knew [03:00.38] [03:01.44]With an old-fashioned barman [03:03.50] [03:04.62]Wearing old-fashioned clothes [03:06.76] [03:08.71]But when I get there it's been bulldozed [03:13.37] [03:13.88]So I follow my nose down Comatose Lane [03:17.45]Through the stripped back ripped up wastes [03:19.86]Of Woebegone Square [03:22.25] [03:27.12]Till I find myself on Deadbeat Street [03:30.29]My Feet beginning to ache despair in the air [03:34.57] [03:40.35]The only thing bright in this blighted town [03:43.36]Are the billboard adverts everywhere displayed [03:48.39] [03:49.63]Like mocking shades [03:51.48] [03:53.37]And the musty dusty second-hand bookstore [03:56.97]Is now a scum-encrusted amusement arcade [04:00.25] [04:00.82]It was the nearest thing to hip [04:02.81] [04:04.02]It was the nearest thing to hip [04:05.98] [04:06.52]In this shithole and it's gone [04:10.77]It was the nearest thing to hip [04:12.54] [04:13.71]In was the nearest thing to hip [04:15.99]In this shithole and it's gone [04:20.93] [04:25.89]And it's gone