Salt Lake City 1973-Shawn Mullins

[ti:Salt Lake City 1973] [ar:Shawn Mullins] [al:The First Ten Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Salt Lake City 1973 - Shawn Mullins [00:13.53]Mormon's are everwhere [00:14.59]Battalions of bicycling bachelors [00:15.34] [00:16.73]With dark suits [00:17.41]And well cropped hair [00:18.41]We're mormons too [00:18.97]Have been since '72 [00:20.54]I'm riding between my brother and sister [00:22.59]In the back seat of a '67 buick station wagon [00:24.03]With red vinyl seats [00:25.71]We stick by each other [00:27.83]And to those seats [00:28.58]We've been eating cheese and bacon sandwiches [00:30.28]Our mother made for thirteen days straight in the august heat [00:35.09]And both my siblings are wakin' on those eggshells [00:36.77]As i will soon learn how to do myself [00:38.77]They play their quiet silly games [00:40.51]With their peashooters [00:41.76]As i sip luke-warm sprite from a tin can [00:43.82]Sold to me by a hunchback silly bastard old woman [00:44.39]A hundred miles back [00:45.76] [00:47.09]Who is probably the only person with good sense [00:49.46]In this part of the country [00:50.77]I still don't know what to do god-awful bacon and cheese sandwich [00:53.08] [00:53.81]But your body is your temple [00:55.18]God tells us so [00:56.24]So drink up your milk [00:57.43]And reap what you sow [00:58.24]I mold the cheese and bacon sandwich into a ball in my hand [01:00.96]It kind of reminds me of play-dough [01:02.03]I look around to see who is watchin' [01:04.77]And stuff it between the red vinyl seats [01:06.52]No one will find it [01:07.58]At least not for a couple of weeks [01:09.45]We're in this big place now [01:11.39]It's kind of like 1/2 of an blue plastic easter egg shell [01:13.63]And there's a hole in the top [01:15.82]Where the sun cuts through [01:17.19]And lights up the room [01:18.31]And i hear all these male voices [01:19.56]Telling me that black people are inferior [01:20.56]And it's ok to have more than one wife [01:23.49]And as the dry dry breath of the utah sun warms me [01:26.61]I stand before a statue of jesus that is far too big [01:30.23]And has held these folks hostage for so so long [01:32.73]And i gaze up at the nostrils of the sandstone savior [01:36.35]And wonder if it [01:37.53]Can smell all this bullshit [01:39.03]Cause i sure can [01:41.59]And i'm only 5 years old [01:42.59]In salt lake city [01:43.33]In 1973