Dirt On Your New Shoes - Bishop Allen

Take the shells that you’ve collected

Sow them with your favorite silver thread

Now you jingle, now you rattle with every step

Skeletons upon the stairway

Showing up the teeth inside their heads

Is it you or are they laughing at what you said?

And when the day came,

You had the same name,

You let your town down

Town down

Way down

And when the day came,

You had the same name

You let your town down

Town down

Way down

(Breakdown)

In the dark and down the hillside

Run until you cannot catch your breath

Get the band to play a love song… at your request

Smell the cinnamon and chocolates

?

yellow, pink and red

On the ground you spread a blanket to be your bed

And when the day came,

You had the same name

You let your town down

Town down

Way down

And when the day came,

You had the same name

You let your town down

Town down

Way down

And when you… when you, get on your new shoes

You turn your town down, way down