String of Pearls-Soul Asylum

[ti:String Of Pearls] [ar:Soul Asylum] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:12.51]She swings the string of pearls on the corner [00:17.32]The street lights reflect the light in the water [00:22.82]The string it snaps and the pearls go sailing [00:27.49]And they splash and bounce and roll cross the wet street [00:32.55]As she bends to chase the pearls a car swings round the corner [00:37.24]She darts from the eyes of the panic-struck driver [00:41.98]Whos racing to the delivery room [00:46.17] [00:46.80]Cause in the back seat his wife is busting out of her womb [00:51.66] [00:56.78]And the sack breaks and out come the siamese twins [01:01.33]Who grow up to become the first president [01:06.10]With two heads [01:07.98] [01:09.85]Are better than one [01:13.28] [01:15.84]He puts his heads in his hands says I got to put my heads together [01:20.90]I can become the best president ever [01:25.58]And not just president [01:28.88] [01:29.70]Fend for yourself [01:32.00] [01:53.25]Signs his name takes the blame for all of the names with no shame [01:59.50] [02:00.75]In their beliefs [02:02.12]They adjourn and they leave and in walks a man [02:07.08]With a broom and a knife and blood on his hands [02:11.57]And he sweeps everything under the rug [02:16.12]And goes home to his kids and gives them a hug [02:20.55]But his wife was not there she had just left a letter [02:25.42]That said you'd be much better off without me [02:30.63] [02:39.06]Now his wife took the train to her ex-lovers funeral [02:43.74]Who died in the bathroom hit his head on a urinal [02:47.80]When they got together the knowledge was carnal [02:52.73]And the widow was at the funeral and they had quite a catfight [02:57.16]And they fell into the hole where the casket was resting [03:01.72]And the preacher just left in the middle of the service [03:06.22]Cause death was one thing but women made him nervous [03:10.65]And he ran to his car and he drove round the corner [03:15.65] [03:33.56]Then something in the street caught the light in his eye [03:37.87]He pulled over reached down and picked up a pearl from the gutter [03:43.79] [03:44.42]And he didnt know what to think [03:47.54]And he brought it home and washed it in the sink [03:52.03] [03:52.60]And he gave the pearl to sister mary teresa [03:57.22]Who could not accept it so she gave it to lisa [04:02.21]A young prostitute who was missing a pearl [04:06.89]On the necklace that broke late last night