Shamrock Lyrics

Shamrock in the grass, poor unfortunate clover


Feet will beat you flat, engines will mow you over


Maybe you should take a long last backwards glance


Maybe you should find a pot and grow up to be a houseplant


Before they pull the roots at last, just take the shirt off your back



And there will be no need for you to pack belongings


There'll be no need for you to tidy up the place


There is no need for you at all this morning


All the live long day


Don't eat, don't sleep,

don't grow too green


Too soon winter will wrinkle your leaves


It's making me crazy



As the dirt clods fall from the roots and tubers


Cracking where the earth has lost it's grip


Let slip, it meant to keep you down



The space without collapsing in


And so it seems you've been run through the rinse


All over again


Not once, not twice, now several times


They must be peeling the orange from rind


To take what's inside



Lamb chop cut the grass,

poor old whirling motor

Shamrock lay down flat,

engine comes screaming over


And there will be no need for you to look with longing


There'll be no need for you to save a place in line


There is no need for you at all this morning


All the live long day

No please don't speak, I know your thoughts


And so it seems it's been dragging me up the wall

and over the floor

These stars, these hearts, these lucky charms


Eventually tear the green clovers apart


And leave them in pieces