1979 Songtext
von Rob Thomas

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I shake
Junebug skipping like a stone
The headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we′d never see an end to it all

And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don′t know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see


Do we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pull
In the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement
Relenting and assured to the lights and towers below

Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we′d go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it
See it

Do we don′t even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

The street heats the urgency of sound
As you see there′s no one around