Whatever It Was - Greg Brown


    She's got a slant 6 mind and a supercharged heart,
    The little princess is singing about her parts,
    She says, "Come hither", but when I get hither she is yon.
    I was looking for what I loved.  Whatever it was, it's gone.

    TV spreads and tension mounts,
    Like a guy in a bra it's the idea that counts,
    It's a picture of a picture of a whore holding a picture of a john.
    I was looking for what I loved...

    In the chemical fields by ammonia light,
    I would offer my prayer to the Corn Goddess tonight,
    but they chopped off her head and stuck her body out on the lawn.
    I was looking for what I loved...

    My generation takes what it can get,
    Are you surprised that the kids are all upset?
    They're looking at Nothing and Nothing turns away and yawns.
    I was looking for what I loved...

    Can't go to the country - the country isn't there,
    It got chopped up and mortgaged and vanished in thin air,
    It's a paint-by-number and it costs a million bucks down at the pawn.
    I was looking for what I loved...

    An electronic head and feet of clay,
    gonna be a lotta roadkill on the Information Highway,
    Someone stole the video of the everfresh and lovely dawn.
    I was looking for what I loved...

    You might be streetwise.  You might be real bad,
    I guess you forgot that you also are a dad,
    Your kids won't forget it when they're trying to find someone to lean on
    I was looking for what I loved...

    The little towns are lying on their faces,
    All that's left are fading parking spaces,
    It's been quite a week, there was a drive-by shooting in Lake Wobegon.
    I was looking for what I loved...

    A Native American told me this whole deal's a mistake,
    and this implosion is just icing on the cake,
    If the Great Spirit is gambling, I'd say the con is a bigger con.
    I was looking for what I loved...


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