Shellac - Doris

DORIS

None-too-smart to buy books,
none-too-pretty,
it's kind of a chore to look at
Doris's hands when things go wrong in her little life,
and they show her her face.
There are things she doesn't talk about,
There are things she only tells her mom,
There are things she never tells anyone.

There are things in Doris's life,
but then there are in everyone's...
then she opens her little mouth,
she sings her little song and like a flag
it folds out across the city,
and it goes:

"The fat man becomes an ice-skater...
Maniac becomes a stepfather...
I watch a policeman's mouth -
out comes an honest word."

Miracles happen when Doris sings,
couples in love stop dead in their tracks,
dishes clatter to the ground (unbroken),
politicians die.

She watches as her son becomes an imbecile,
watches as her son becomes a vegetable,
watches as her son becomes a senator,
watches as her only son becomes an imbecile
(and it makes her cry).

She waves her little song like a flag,
it goes across the city.
Miracles can happen,
but I'm in love with her, so...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shellac
• of
• North
• America
• Doris
• Steve
• Albini
• Big
• Black
• Rapeman
• soul
• rock
• electronic
• alternative

[tomtomtrommeltom]

yeah!

this was my first shellac-record ever!

i bought it by accident without knowing the band or its music!

still love this song!

great stuff.

[emilyrl]

Oh man thats awesome!

I've taken that chance before & ended up with cds to stomp on lol. What great luck that you found some of Steve Albini's material! ;)

[astrobopper]

She watches as her son becomes an imbecile,

watches as her son becomes a vegetable,

watches as her son becomes a senator,

watches as her only son becomes an imbecile

(and it makes her cry).

--So this song is about Joe Biden?

[lucylocketed]

i love shellac

[cthulhugamete]

so brilliant it punches a hole thru your face.

[TelevisionePirata]

meravigliosa!!!

[ilovebmx27]

the beat sounds like perfect is the world by kid cudi...just an observation

[PADManimatics]

saw shellac right before touch and go's 25th. my first show in 5 years and it was beautiful. although they're not very gracious unless you're kissing their asses or buying merchandise. disappointing

[mrtones73]

@sanderstrebor what? This is so far removed from the happy power pop of the Descendants.

[wordupassholes]

This song is about David Yow's mom

[JohanAfterglow]

Chicago hardcore always rocks...

[xxoxxsmash]

@astrobopper Biden Bush Pallin

[xxoxxsmash]

lost all my 7's in a house fire...great to hear this again... thanks

[djgeeter]

@McKJudo oh my GOD I am so sorry! that sounds like it really sucks! fuck I can just hear it in my head too, chug! chug! woooooo!!!! GO CHAD!!! aaarrg I think I'm mad FOR you, rawr, damn stupid drunk jock kegger-going to motherfuckers and their FORD trucks and copenhagen and honky tonk...i live in montana so i can bitch..