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This is the most recent version of this song, in the style that we've done it live the past year. The original can be heard on the tail-end of Spine Cones on Elmer's Paste Land.

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She said
"Clowns don't talk back when you look at them."
"Why don't they?"
"I don't know."
And she said I would be a perfect man
if I knew where to go when the sun went down.
And we walked
down the street.
Passed some cars, passed some people who mean nothing to us.
That's okay.
They're just living their lives like the people that they think
they
are.
And to them they're probably the most important person. To them.
But to me they're just a person that we passed when we walked down the street.
Ha, ha, we're going to get ice cream, and

lick it down.
Lick it down our throats.
If I had to push it down yours you might choke.
I would never even dream of that, no.
I would never even fathom such a thing.
If you had the right ice cream: butterscotch.
Maybe even maple walnut.

We'll gather up your trash and put it in the bin.
We've got places to go and people to see
and this is our day don't you dare leave me.
I need to hold your hand, but I think it looks dumb.
I don't think i'll hold you hand.
Why don't we get some ice cream?
Oh wait, we just did.
Why don't don't we go somewhere else and do something else?

Say something just like you need to say.
Oh, you'd never go away...
No, you'd never think of anything mean to say.
Yes you would.
I've heard it, I've heard it, I was there.
I heard it at the end of the day.

Why don't we get some ice cream?
We just did.

No regrets, I ain't got a regret.
Ain't got a regret about getting the pistachio, no, no, no.
But you say you hate nuts!
Well it was for me!
I didn't want you to lick my own ice cream.

I say "Girl, oh girl, you don't understand
what it mean to be a man.
What it's like to be a full grown man.
What it's like to go from boy to man,
from man to old man.
What it's like to die.
What it's like to lie about dying,
because I ain't dead and you think i've been dead since '85.

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from True To These Times, released January 6, 2012

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