Loudon Wainwright III - Cobwebs lyrics

rate me

Well it stumbles and it falls off of almost every

Tongue

Give a listen and you'll hear

It's workin like a landmine in almost every sentence

It's an assault to my mind's ear

Yeah it might have started back with Jack Kerouac

Probably more than likely it was Maynard G. Krebs

It's the 4 letter word that used to mean 'as if'

And the meaning's covered in cobwebs

Cobwebs

Used to be a preposition then it was a conjunction

Now it's used as an audible pause

Oh I hate it when I hear it especially when I see it

Gotta stamp it out there ought to be some laws

College boys valley girls mall rats grandmammas

Everybody's misusin that word

I heard it four times in one poor little sentence

It was the saddest sound I ever have heard

Cobwebs x3

I suppose you could blame it on my generation

Chickens from the 60s finally comin into roost

I've been sayin it myself for over 30 years now

Just to give my cool quota just a little bitty kind of

A boost

But when I hear it

I can't stand it

Especially coming out of the mouths of one of my own

Kids

It's been taught and, God,

What have we wrought?

Give a listen here, what do we dig?

I prefer ah or er

You can rest assured

If you're sayin what you mean then it don't mean a

Thing

It's just an ugly little 4 letter word

Doesn't anybody care or am I the only one?

Am I just stuck back in some kind of a past?

Maybe it's harmless but it feels like a virus

And it sounds like it's catchin on fast

Cobwebs x2