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The Idiot Kings Lyrics
Everything is going up
Everything is going as planned, yeah
Everything moves along
Everything is fine, fine, fine
Oh I could be
Condemned to Hell for every sin but littering
I could slip on the East River and crash into Queens all skittering
I've seen the cops and the robbers, and I know they dance the same
I've seen a half a zillion girls and haven't spoken to a single one of them
Batting in the light
My reptile-lidded eyes
And all this strung end to end
Is wider than the mind
And this cool I've been playing I have been
Playing too long now my
Capacities are dwindling 'til they're
Gone gone gone
Baby can I change my mind?
I just want to change my mind
Everything is going as planned, yeah
Everything moves along
Everything is fine, fine, fine
Condemned to Hell for every sin but littering
I could slip on the East River and crash into Queens all skittering
I've seen the cops and the robbers, and I know they dance the same
I've seen a half a zillion girls and haven't spoken to a single one of them
My reptile-lidded eyes
And all this strung end to end
Is wider than the mind
Playing too long now my
Capacities are dwindling 'til they're
Gone gone gone
I just want to change my mind
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" The initial title was "Luv Gangsters." "The Idiot Kings" was the prospective title for a novel about a band I used to want to write--that would've been the name of the band.
I don't know, we were rehearsing before the last tour before we went in to make I.B. and suddenly everybody liked the song and there it was. And then, while we were on tour and playing it live nightly, fucking Alanis came out with that "everything is fine, fine, fine" song, I saw the video standing in the lobby of the Phoenix hotel in S.F. and starting saying No, no, dear Lord, no...That's when we started devoting time in the set to explaining how Alanis and the C.I.A. were stealing ideas from my mind.
I hated the Luv Gangsters part, so I actually wrote the batting in the light/reptile-lidded eyes part while we were at the Power Station with David Kahne. Like, desperately, in two minutes, just blurted out this verse. Kinda dig it, actually. "
@jay314 thanks for this
@jay314 thanks for this
Reading the lyrics, and after having listened to the song 30,000 times from when it was first released until now, it's obviously a reference to Doughty's past as a drug addict...That's all well and good, I just think it is the bee's knees, man!
This is one of my favorite SC songs..
it was originally called Luv Gangsters, because the "batting in the light" verse was originally:
"pistols on the sides, luv gangsters on the rise, yeah. pistols on the sides, luv gangsters on the rise."