Cattle and the Creeping Things (demo) Songtext
von The Hold Steady

Got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things
Said, "Wait a minute, I think I′ve heard this song before"
"Don't it all end up in some revelation with four guys on horses and red violent visions?
"Famine and death and pestilence and war?"
I think I might have mentioned this before

You in the corner with a good-looking drifter
Two cups of coffee and ten packs of sugar
I heard Gideon saw you in Denver, I heard you′re contagious
Silly rabbit, tricking is for the teenagers
Hard drugs are for bartenders and murders for murderers
I think I mentioned that before

He's got the pages in his pockets that he ripped out of the Bible
From his bed stand in his motel
He likes the part where they chase all the traders from the temple


Heard about the original sin
I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake
And I heard they were naked when they got busted
And I heard things ain't been the same ′round here since
You on the streets with a tendency to preach to the choir
Wired for sound and down with whatever
I heard Gideon saw you in Denver

She′s got a cross around her neck that she ripped off
From a schoolgirl in the subway on a visit to the city
She likes how it looks on her chest with three open buttons
She likes the part where one brother kills the other
She has to wonder if the world ever did recover
'Cause Cain and Abel are still causing trouble

Got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things
But before I said, "I think I′ve heard this one before"
"Don't it all end up in some revelation with four guys on horses?"
"Famine, death and pestilence and war?"
I think I mentioned this before

Someone mentioned this before
Someone mentioned this before
Yeah, I think someone mentioned this before