"World Serious" lyrics
T Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello Lyrics
Eating ice chrome at the spaceball game
Between the China Reds and the New World Braves
The grandstand swayed as the organ played its soulful anthem
And the old announcers voice rang through the night in Gotham
Where on the street two lovers meet, so discrete
Acting cool but talking cruel about their fools
He's a brute, she's a mute, it don't compute
Unaware that standing there is a gun cocked to shoot
Eating ice chrome at the spaceball game
Instead of the world of such specifics
We speak like freaks
The fate of kings, keen the beastly pipers
Drums and cymbals, stupid with ciphers
Eating ice chrome at the spaceball game
Between the China Reds and the New World Braves
The grandstand swayed as the organ played its soulful anthem
And the old announcers voice rang through the night in Gotham
Between the China Reds and the New World Braves
The grandstand swayed as the organ played its soulful anthem
And the old announcers voice rang through the night in Gotham
Where on the street two lovers meet, so discrete
Acting cool but talking cruel about their fools
He's a brute, she's a mute, it don't compute
Unaware that standing there is a gun cocked to shoot
Eating ice chrome at the spaceball game
Instead of the world of such specifics
We speak like freaks
The fate of kings, keen the beastly pipers
Drums and cymbals, stupid with ciphers
Eating ice chrome at the spaceball game
Between the China Reds and the New World Braves
The grandstand swayed as the organ played its soulful anthem
And the old announcers voice rang through the night in Gotham
