Cobwebs Lyric by Loudon Wainwright Iii

Cobwebs Lyric

by Loudon Wainwright Iii

Lyric:



Well It Stumbles And It Falls Off Of Almost Every Tongue

Give A Listen And You'll Hear

It's Workin Like A Landmine In Almost Every Sentence

It's An Assault To My Mind's Ear



Yeah It Might Have Started Back With Jack Kerouac

Probably More Than Likely It Was Maynard G. Krebs

It's The Four Letter Word That Used To Mean 'as If'

And The Meaning's Covered In Cobwebs

Cobwebs



Used To Be A Preposition Then It Was A Conjunction

Now It's Used As An Audible Pause

Oh I Hate It When I Hear It Especially When I See It

Gotta Stamp It Out There Ought To Be Some Laws



College Boys Valley Girls Mall Rats Grandmammas

Everybody's Misusin That Word

I Heard It Four Times In One Poor Little Sentence

It Was The Saddest Sound I Ever Have Heard

Cobwebs

Cobwebs

Cobwebs



I Suppose You Could Blame It On My Generation

Chickens From The 60s Finally Comin Into Roost

I've Been Sayin It Myself For Over Thirty Years Now

Just To Give My Cool Quota Just A Little Bitty Kind Of A Boost



But When I Hear It

I Can't Stand It

Especially Coming Out Of The Mouths Of One Of My Own Kids



It's Been Taught And, God,

What Have We Wrought?

Give A Listen Here, What Do We Dig?



I Prefer Ah Or Er

You Can Rest Assured

If You're Sayin What You Mean Then It Don't Mean A Thing

It's Just An Ugly Little Four Letter Word



Doesn't Anybody Care Or Am I The Only One?

Am I Just Stuck Back In Some Kind Of A Past?

Maybe It's Harmless But It Feels Like A Virus

And It Sounds Like It's Catchin On Fast

Cobwebs

Cobwebs