The Arrogance of the Drunk Pedestrian - The Smith Street Band

with the arrogance of the drunk pedestrian

taxi driver looks down my girlfriends top

asks politely if he can be a gentlemen

pulls his aviators down so he doesn’t have to stop

and we’ll keep on through the shit storm

until the metaphors are literal

forced screams are guttural

and we’ll keep on through the shit storm

until the metaphors, until the metaphors

when I said this is all I had I meant it

nice speak in the tired clichés of a strip club DJ

marvellous things so quickly get mundane

when you see the scaffolding behind me

and all the dirty air it always blocks your way

and we’ll keep on through the shit storm

until the metaphors are literal

forced screams are guttural

and we’ll keep on through the shit storm

until the metaphors, until the metaphors

until the metaphors

when I said this was all I had I meant it

when I said this was all I had I meant it

when you said I was a bad person I felt it

when I said this was all I had I meant it

when you said that I had to destroy you

I knew that part of you was trying to destroy me too

when I said that i wanted to die I meant it

when I said that you saved my life I meant it

but goodbye

goodbye

goodbye

goodbye