Whaz' Zat-Shawn Phillips

[ti:Whaz' Zat] [ar:Shawn Phillips] [al:Second Contribution] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Whaz' Zat - Shawn Phillips [00:02.80]Lightning slaying shadows [00:04.14]In the tremors of the night [00:05.73]While he creeps among the alleys [00:07.29]Bringing fear before the fright [00:08.94]She sleeps in tattered trousers [00:10.38]In the ballroom's decadence [00:13.68] [00:14.26]Moaning gently of her dreaming [00:15.69]By escorted precedence [00:19.90]Antiquated babblings [00:21.04]From a constant stream of thought [00:22.88]Sensitively wringing out [00:24.26]The rags that he has caught [00:28.11]Patting yet her bulging belly [00:29.48]She so slowly cries a smile [00:31.27]In anticipated suffering [00:32.71]Of her slowly growing child [00:39.26]He is speeding in a vacuum [00:41.07]Going nowhere but of course [00:42.80]He might believe in discipline [00:44.27]Of a bloody kind of sort [00:45.95]Naturally a state of race [00:47.53]A never changing spate of hate [00:49.17]While everything in some weird way [00:50.60]Does manage to relate [00:52.00]To her it doesn't matter more [00:53.60]It's chasms have been leapt [00:55.25]And she leans upon the skepticism of her chosen fate [01:03.22] [01:03.80]Stand tall you spittle smattered son of man [01:07.00]Stand up you hear them say [01:09.32] [01:10.25]To slap you down and kick your teeth [01:12.81]And smile across the bay [01:15.45] [01:16.07]Irrelevant eloquent pleading [01:17.47]Wasn't what she did this year [01:19.17]She passed it by and told a lie [01:20.82]And shed a crystal tear [01:22.36]For him to see from valley's edge [01:23.86]From 0plateaus in the sand [01:25.29]And yet he has besh*t himself [01:26.81]For being just a man [01:33.75]A bragging crowing sort of twit [01:35.40]A cast off shade of pink [01:36.85]Who's brought himself and all the rest [01:38.45]Unto the very brink [01:41.23]Yet that magic urge [01:42.27]Continues on and plays continuum [01:44.48]A song of pleasure and of pain [01:46.27]Until that will be done