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What Did You Expect When You Named It After A Tree?

from Album by Dan Whitley & The Passerines

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[indecipherable mumbling] … what did you expect when you named it after a tree?
[screaming]

The strangers stand watching as a fight starts to go
Alan wants his marmalade but Fred tells him no
You tell him to turn it off but he screams and he locks you out
And you think that you’ve heard good things but was just that the girl upstairs?
Your favourite band are singing songs that you don’t know
And Jonathan screams as he falls down the hole
[Chorus:]
We have to find a better way (better way, better way, better way)
We have to find a better way (better way, better way, better way)
We have to find a better way (better way, better way, better way)
We have to, we have to, we have to, we have to

And he may’ve written no but the answer was yes
If he told you that he loved you it would just make a mess
They say that we should tell the truth, but you’re struggling to see
They want us all to serve the country, “but do they really need me?”
Everybody tries too hard to be polite
You gotta get down from your high-up sting
And you don’t want any when he comes round with cake
But how will you feel when you drown in the lake?
[Chorus x2]

We will disembowel you slowly o’er an open fire
You’re kicking and you’re screaming as we shave your vapid hair
And a splendid time may be guaranteed
But how about the feeling as you scream and you bleed?
You’ve got nothing more to give but still they threaten and rob you blind
The man holds out a form and takes your silver for his soul
And you see all that money coming round on the train
You just stand there screaming as it’s starting to rain
The optimist says that it’s gonna get worse
And the pessimist tells you it can only get better
You’re trying hard to get away but you can’t escape the scene
But what did you expect when you named it after a tree?
[Chorus x3]
[fade out]

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from Album, released August 19, 2014

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