Austin Lounge Lizards - Bonfire Of The Inanities lyrics

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(Conrad Deisler/Hank Card)

We rented a convertible in San Bernadino

We were driving for driving's sake

Across the tortured waterless mountains

Through the moonscape of Mono Lake

The lights of earth had faded behind

The stars were fat and sleek

The universe seemed enormous

So how could we be unique?

We scanned the voids for humanoids

And an answer to the question "Why?"

¡Carramba! What were we thinking?

Cause we were borning to die!

To the aliens above we are just tiny anys

They could crush with their giant feet

They could smash our car and mash us into

A little bit of hamburger meat

So let the wind blow through your head

Your thoughts don't matter anyway

We're insignificant, baby

And we're all gonna fade away

We only stopped in Reno for a very short time

But the lights were way too bright

We got tired of spending our winnings

And went spinning out into the night

In the desert we saw this giant man

Exploding like the Fourth of July

Slowly we turned to say "hello"

When he vaporized into the sky

We're feeling like a bunch of hothouse tomatoes

Riding in a bubble-pack box

With nothing between us and a big hungry worm

But this canvas roof and the push button locks

To the aliens above we are just tiny anys

They could crush with their giant feet

They could smash our car and mash us into

A little bit of hamburger meat

And then someday the whole planet'll blow

And we're all gonna suffocate

We're insignificant, baby

And we just think it's great

Insignificant

Get it over

Cut our taxes

Make it so

Marfa Lights

Can't get no

Where's our luggage?

Just say thanks

That oughta do it