"And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine"
-Signs
"Signs"
V1
And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do
So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you
woah!
Chorus:
Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign
V2
And the sign said anybody caught trespassing would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the house, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner
Repeat Chorus:
Bridge:
Now, hey you Mister! can't you read, you got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't suppose to be here
Sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside Uh!
V3
And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus
© 1970, 2002 Five Man Electrical Band
Far out.
ReplyDeleteOH, I hope it will be far out, once I wrangle all of my interests and put them in some sort of order, or not... This blog will consist of Lots of "signs" I've seen along the way: All Resonating with me and a few Enigmas.....I have a collection, all, that warrant essays, and all that Spoke to me, possibly in an enigmatic way. Mesages from the Universe. I've been posting them on my facebook page as I find them, and have intentions of Placing them one by one, with the thoughts they provoked in me at the time. I see them as messages from the universe. I'd like them to eventually become a book, reflecting on what the inspiration was for the song, how people were evolving and pushing boundaries of previous decades....But how NOW, as I believe, a great shift is happening, the Signs are leading us, if we open our eyes to them to a better way to "balance" ourselves on the railroad tracks of our lives.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting! I hope you'll come back as One by one, all of my inspirations, in time become Actualities.
P.S I loved your blog, and would like to have a chat with you sometime about the Ravens....I've been writing a poem, and a mentor encouraged me to repeat a line through out the poem, and I couldn't help but notice, how it was reminding me of Poe's "The Raven" Which I haven't thought about since my junior or senior year in HIgh school (which was a long time ago) I had a Poe phase then...
Cheers ;)