You need to straighten your posture and suck in your gut
You need to pull back your shoulders and tighten your butt
Yeah, come Comanche, Comanche, Comanche commode
If you want to have cities you've got to build roads

You need to find some new feathers and buy some new clothes
Just get rid of the antlers and lighten your load
Yeah, come Comanche, Comanche, Comanche, commode
Yeah, if you want to have cities, you've got to build roads

You need to straighten your posture and suck in your gut
You need to pull back your shoulders and tighten your butt
Yeah, come Comanche, Comanche, Comanche, commode

Ah, if you want to have cities
Yeah, if you want to have cities
No, if you want to have cities
You've got to build roads


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Comanche Lyrics as written by John M Mccrea

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    I think this song is about politics. Telling them that they should be more professional, or go to the commode (toilet, be thrown away, be ditched, quit, whatever). As in comanche, as a leader, like a respected person, such as the Native Americans. "If you want to build cities, you've got to build roads," as in you need to start somewhere to be great, you can't be a legend without starting out doing something. Maybe with "you need to find some new feathers and buy some new clothes. just get rid of the antlers and lighten your load." they are talking about needing to change yourself, changing your feathers, or ur personality and clothes, like his appearance. With the antlers, lose the rudeness or hard-headedness, and the lighten your load, be more easy going. if you see what im getting at that is.. lol

    _Lif3_w_Music_on March 21, 2006   Link

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