I'm just another ten percenter
My mind is like an ocean
My mind is like an ocean
I'm hanging in the harbor

I'm just drifting letting out the line
I'm letting out the drifting line
I'm just tyring to a guy
who's hailing from Ann Arbor

Making jerk
And its good
Getting perk
Yeah, I would

I'm a jerk
If get'n cotton mouth
You better have some water
Sucking syrup and soda

you're goin' to just get hotter
But if you want to wile awhile
But if you want to wile awhile
Oh suck a syrup and soda

Oh dance oh sons and daughters
Making jerk
And its good
Getting perk

Yeah, I would
Making jerk
If you got cotton mouth

My mind is like an ocean
My mind is like an ocean
My mind is like an ocean

I'm a jerk
Making jerk
Soda jerk
And its good

Jerk
Jerk
Jerk
Jerk
Jerk


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Ten Percenter Lyrics as written by Charles Thompson

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    My Interpretation

    The lyrics aren't totally correct.

    A "ten percenter" is someone who doesn't give 100% to a task. It doesn't refer to using 10% of your brain (a pseudo scientific myth by the way). The character in the song is a soda jerk. The person who hand pulls soda (carbonated beverage) from the storage container into your glass. This is often where you'd get ice cream or a float as well.

    "Cotton mouth" is when your mouth is dry or you're thirsty. It's reference is to being thirsty after you "suck a syrup and soda".

    "Soda jerks, Iggy Pop, and me."

    • Frank, from the Frank Black album press kit
    bshirleyon February 25, 2012   Link

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