Give It A Day Lyrics - Pavement

Increase Mather told her dad, yeah 

"I roundly disagree with you 

You're vocal style's to preachy 

All the yokels mock your teaching." 

But Cotton, he was just so oblivious 

To all their cutting pleas 

Soon the townfolk took to it, 

In every pew they looked to him 

For guidance just like eyeless lambs 

Awaiting that ol' kabob stand 

The skeptics formed 

The nation's born 

They want to have it, Cotton's dream 

But Increase had them mounted 

And they burned on open fires 

So the word spread just like small pox 

In the Sudan 

The gentry cried: 

"Give it a day!" x6 

Years and years have passed 

Since the puritans invaded our soul 

Just like those arab terrorists 

You'll never know 

But today the gods can't make us quake, 

We see our lives as situations 

Eyes are eyes and teeth are teeth, 

Well mine are rotten underneath 

I got two ways we can separate from the clan 

If I could fly...I...could...fry 

I hope you profited from this bulletin 

And it stabilized your land 

You're drenched, you're fired, 

Your Alzheim clan, but 

Your father is another one of them 

I don't wanna mention him again, cause 

I talked to him last night, 

He hates my guts 

We had a fight 

And he called you a slut girl, 

Why's that? 

What did you do to him to make him think...?