Liz Phair - Jeremy Engle lyrics
[Liz Phair - Jeremy Engle lyrics]
Jeremy Engle lives in a tangled
Rent controlled apartment
With his communist family
There are books all around them
The dining room table is lacquered
With news clippings yellowing badly
They argue at dinner
His brother's friends drop by
To throw a line in or two about Tolstoy
They all play guitar
And they're all very far away
In their own minds from the upper west side
Of Manhattan
I never got past his googly eyes
That looked at me sadly in mocking surprise
The way a Lord looks at his place mat
Or a stain on his tie
It never happened for me
And Jeremy Engle though
Wanted to step through that portal
And try on that other dimension
Of high high browism
Jeremy's hair and brow
Grow very high and no, not I
I'm more of a napkin
Not blessed with the vision
Beyond how I'm matching the china and wine
Now there are the Engles skewering Lenin
And chewing through six pounds of venison
Thigh that they shot up in upstate New York
At their uncle's jeremy needs me
To wipe off his eye
Some gelatinous thingy
That his brother's rebuttaling
Mouthful let fly
Sometimes all you need is a napkin
Sometimes all you need is a napkin
Rent controlled apartment
With his communist family
There are books all around them
The dining room table is lacquered
With news clippings yellowing badly
They argue at dinner
His brother's friends drop by
To throw a line in or two about Tolstoy
They all play guitar
And they're all very far away
In their own minds from the upper west side
Of Manhattan
I never got past his googly eyes
That looked at me sadly in mocking surprise
The way a Lord looks at his place mat
Or a stain on his tie
It never happened for me
And Jeremy Engle though
Wanted to step through that portal
And try on that other dimension
Of high high browism
Jeremy's hair and brow
Grow very high and no, not I
I'm more of a napkin
Not blessed with the vision
Beyond how I'm matching the china and wine
Now there are the Engles skewering Lenin
And chewing through six pounds of venison
Thigh that they shot up in upstate New York
At their uncle's jeremy needs me
To wipe off his eye
Some gelatinous thingy
That his brother's rebuttaling
Mouthful let fly
Sometimes all you need is a napkin
Sometimes all you need is a napkin