Matador Records | Mecca Normal lyrics to Who Shot Elvis

Medieval Man 4:22

Medieval man tucks the gun
of a calibre I'm not familiar with
I've never heard of a 33 automatic weapon
Tucks the gun
into the waistband of his tights
and pulls his tunic down to stroll the room

If you know
what a gun can do for you
you know that the knee
can produce a reaction
in a jerk that wont shut up

Press the gun
on his knee and talk to him
When the candle flares
in a draftless room
I can only assume
it's the gasoline
on your breath

Sammy, Dean and Brian
all became addicted to
the farm gas barrels
the fumes
How did they do it?

I like to stay outside myself

If you know
what gun can do for you
you know that the knee
can produce a reaction
in a jerk who wont shut up
Medieval man knows when the bricks end
in a tourist town
you're on the outs
and the pace just picked down

I like to stay outside myself

Who Shot Elvis? 5:06

Keys were silent in velvet pocket
the one she'd laced her hand in his
Sharp little hand
couldn't unlock the door

Who shot Elvis?
Who drowned the Kennedys?
Who climbed Mount Rushmore?
Who swam the seven seas?
My history is gone
The history is all gone

Her movements made her look worried
She didn't have to look to see
She didn't want to know anything so well

Who shot Elvis?

The gate was closed
before the race was through
The problem at hand
was worth two in the bush
and I knew the bush
like the back of my hand

Who shot Elvis?

Put the keys in the velvet pocket
Sharp little hands
can't unlock the door
Sharp little hands
can't unlock the door

Who shot Elvis?
Who drowned the Kennedys?
Who climbed Mount Rushmore?
Who swam the seven seas?
My history is gone
The history is gone
The history is all gone away

Excalibur 3:04

Going to tell me that?
After I told you that?
You're going to write me a letter?
I thought you were brave
I thought you'd ride in on a white horse
as big as two kingdoms coming
with a blade that upright would tower above us all
blocking out the sun
You handed me over

What does my heart tell me?
It must be a lot
I can't hear a single word
my heart says
It must be a lot
Just the roar...
of blood swishing
Blocking out the individual beats
and stresses of advice

If you simmer fidelity like a stew
of too tough meat
what you get is a stringy
tasteless dish that leaves you wanting
not more but something better
What does my heart tell me?
It must be a lot
I can't hear a single word
my heart tells me
It must be a lot
Just the roar...

The Orbit 5:05

Nice to be at ground level
for a while at least
the clouds stop pressing
against my eyes
shrieking the question
I've already answered

I was the moon
while you were either
the earth or the sun
on my back
larger than life
but perhaps we couldn't see
except the stars

The orbit--
mine or yours?
Around you or is it with me
that around we go

You have miscalculated my strength
I've hinted that I'm weak
I am persuaded by strength
and this time I found and lost some of mine

The orbit--
mine or yours?
Around you or is it with me
that around we go?

Step Into My Sphere 2:34

"Step into my sphere,"
said the lady to the guy.
Don't send your sphinx my way
Don't send your sphinx to town

It's a confusing thing
when you believe in someone
because you trust them
Fire comes with fire

"Are we always drawing backwards?"
said the lady to the mirror.

Rudy-Lucille
Don't send your sphinx to town
Rudy-Lucille
You picked a fine line to wheel.

It's noon now and it feels like 7 a.m.
Got another whole day
on that tiny little stage
you call your town.
We're not following you around.

Rudy-Lucille
Don't take your sphinx to town.
Rudy-Lucille
You picked a fine hand to deal.
"Step into my sphere,"
said the lady to the guy
"Come into my sphere,"
said the lady to the guy.

The Way of Love 7:33

I hope you don't mind
if I cross the street
when i see you
or look the other way

I know I said
"I love you"
I never thought you thought it was true

It's the way of love
I thought you knew

All About the Same Thing 5:10

All about the same thing
Inspiration stole my livelihood away
So I had to lie and say I'd never be the same
I'd never be the same
There was a time when I could not
stick paste to paper and then I realized
that was never the point

All about the same thing
If and I do mean if I say
"There's a sway to the way the wind blew today
and all the cue cards were slapped down"
If I say "I saw a sparrow"
and I may have seen a swallow
and I'd only seen a swallow
it doesn't mean I'm wrong
it means I'm trying to be profound

All about the same thing

And so the lesson tells us
And so the lesson tries to tell us:
The minstrel is not a clown

All about the same thing

Okay Here We Go 2:19

OK here we go

Don't Heal Me Like A Dog Just To Break Me Like A Horse 2:52

He forgets the eyes of spies
are on her heart
She's been exposed
She let her guard down
She knows the rules

He's safe
She's sound

Out alone
She looks alone

Don't heal me like a dog
just to break me like a horse

In Canada 3:14

Living in a trailer across the road
from the cows you were supposed to milk
before dawn.
You don't get home in time
and besides you're ripped and torn.
You're walked to the edge of the land and told,
"Never darken this doorway again."

Kind of a killer
when when when

You cross the world's longest covered bridge
on your father's bike to see your girl
with another man
You were ten minutes late
She gets away to tell you,
"You have a lot of pigeon shit on you."
That's what happens
in the longest covered bridge in the world.

Kind of a killer..
when when when

You drink a half a quart of whiskey
with your bacon and your eggs
every morning.
You're bound to take a dive
for a stainless steel sink
and someone will have to decide
at what point in flight
mid or otherwise you died
And for that the first utterance is,
"It's about time."

Something a little sad when you walk the fifteen miles
to your baby while your baby has her daddy's car.
Things went missing, things got replaced
and a few people struck down the law of the land
with only a butter knife in hand.

In Canada