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God Shuffled His Feet
by Crash Test Dummies
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Overall Rating:
3.4568
Avg. Critic Score:
3.6750
God Shuffled His Feet Lyrics
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- After seven days
- He was quite tired so God said:
- Just for picnics, with wine and bread"
- He gathered up some people he had made
- Created blanket and laid back in the shade
- The people sipped their wine
- And what with God there, they asked him questions
- Like: do you have to eat
- Or get your hair cut in heaven?
- And if your eye got poked out in this life
- Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?
- God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
- The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
- So he said:"Once there was a boy
- Who woke up with blue hair
- To him it was a joy
- Until he ran out into the warm air
- He thought of how his friend would come to see;
- And would they laugh, or had he got some strange disease?
- God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
- The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
- The people sat waiting
- Out on their blankets in the garden
- But God said nothing
- So someone asked him:"I beg your pardon:
- I'm not quite clear about what you just spoke
- What that a parable, or a very subtle joke?"
- God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
- The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
- [Thanks to kurt@beeb.net for correcting these lyrics]
- What is it that makes me just a little bit queasy?
- There's a breeze that makes my breathing not so easy
- I've had my lungs checked out with X rays
- I've smelled the hospital hallways
- Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
- Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime
- Times when the day is like a play by Sartre
- When it seems a bookburning's in perfect order
- I gave the doctor my description
- I've tried to stick to my prescription
- Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
- Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime
- Afternoons will be measured out
- Measured out, measured with
- Coffeespoons ans T.S. Eliot
- Maybe if I could do a play-by-playback
- I could change the test results that I will get back
- I've watched the summer evenings pass by
- I've heard the rattle in my bronchi...
- Once there was this kid who
- Got into an accident and couldn't come to school
- But when he finally came back
- His hair had turned from black into bright white
- He said that it was from when
- The car had smashed so hard
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- Once there was this girl who
- Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
- But when they finally made her
- They saw birthmarks all over her body
- She couldn't quite explain it
- They'd always just been there
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- But both girl and boy were glad
- 'Cause one kid had it worse than that
- 'Cause then there was this boy whose
- Parents made him come directly home right after school
- And when they went to their church
- They shook and lurched all over the church floor
- He couldn't quite explain it
- They'd always just gone there
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
- When I'm sampling from your bosom
- Sometimes I suffer from distractions like
- Why does God cause things like tornadoes and train wrecks?
- [CHORUS]
- When I'm swimming in
- When I'm swimming in your ocean
- Floating aloft on creams
- An scented lotions
- I can get pretty side-tracked
- I hope you'll understand
- When I kneel before your bounty
- Sometimes I wonder if there could be really
- UFO's that come from other planets
- And when you let me taste your fingers
- I take them like fruit and as I linger I
- Wonder if my seed will find purchase in your soil ...
- My doctor told me that it was time for me to have my X ray
- Of course, I had many nightmares about that fatal day
- The room was dark and my skeleton was floating on the wall
- My voice trembles down inside me
- I'm trapped way down in my body
- [CHORUS]
- I, I, I, oh here I stand before me
- But something's out of place here
- My mind's eye is missing from my body
- Well I know it's there but I can't see where
- Well take my fingers, what do fingers really mean to me?
- You can easily look them up in the dictionary:
- They call them digits, or technically they're known as the "philanges"
- My joints connected up inside me
- Way down deep inside my body
- My bones shine brightly, a map of my whole body
- My vital organs just churn away inside me
- Some day they're going to stop this motion
- And I'll be left with...
- My my, the future lay before me
- Hey hey, deep inside my body
- How does a duck know what direction south is?
- And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
- You can cut a chicken's head off
- and it will keep on running and twitching
- [CHORUS]
- When everything seems planned out
- when everything seems nicely planned out
- well the human race will come and smack your face
- How come all my body parts so nicely fit together?
- All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!
- A person pulls a spider's leg out
- To watch it keep on moving and twitching.
- Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air.
- How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke
- and curse every butt I spit out?
- All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
- You can put me in and iron lung
- and I will keep on breathing and twitching.
- She knows the future like the palm in your hand
- She knows your past like the lay of the land
- The first time she met me she saw right through me
- Some cards and a cane in her hand - and she said:
- All the years that have come to pass
- And all the years that shall be
- I see here right before me
- She said her visions were a bane in her life
- She could not control them, they kept her up nights
- I know what you're thinking, I haven't been drinking
- She knew things that cut like a knife - and she said:
- All the years that have come to pass
- And all the years that shall be
- I see here right before me
- Will there be earthquakes and great tidal waves?
- Can she see back to the dinosaur days?
- How can she foresee just by squinting at me and
- Can she see me naked in her mind's eye?
- What does she think when she foretells a disease?
- Would she keep it a secret if death stood before me?
- What could some cards hold, where is her foothold
- Can I escape what she sees? And she said:
- All the years that have come to pass
- And all the years that shall be
- I see here right before me
- I see here before me
- Once there were two knights and maidens
- They'd walk together
- Out in the gardens
- In all kinds of weather
- The knights always pestered the maidens
- To love them together
- Out in the gardens
- And they could watch each other
- The maidens had other plans for the two knights
- They'd give them potions
- And make them see dreams and lights
- The knights took the potions gladly
- They laughed at their visions
- But outside the garden
- Tigers smelled them together
- The maidens had other plans for the two knights
- They'd give them potions
- And make them see dreams and lights
- The knights only laughed at the tigers
- They thought they were visions
- Out in the garden
- The maidens watched them together
- Ah, but for the two knights
- Ah, but for maidens
- Who gave to them dreams and lights
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