If you grew up with white boys
Who only look at black and Puerto Rican porno
Cause they want something that their dad don't got
Then you know where you're at

Mortaring your earholes shut in a rush with wet coke
In a Starbucks bathroom with the door closed
On booze, I'm left in residue and confused
Like the first time you used salt water
Down on my luck, caught unaware
Like Houdini when the last fist struck

If I'm sinking and laughing at something sunken in, I am

Sucking dick for drink tickets
At the free bar at my cousin's bat mitzvah
Cutting the punch line and it ain't no joke
Devoid of all hope, circus mirrors and pot smoke
Picking fights on dyke night
With shirlies and lokes and snatching purses

Doing Elton on karaoke and forgetting all the verses
Blowing kisses to disinterested bitches
Playing lead lay in a bad way on Broadway
Sending sexy SMS's to my exes new man cause i can
On the road trying to break an old van
Eating pussy for new fangs, I am, what the hell
Using Purell till my hands bleed and swell
Missing Mel at a Motel 6, I'm unwell, if

If I'm sinking and laughing at something sunken in, I am

It feels exciting, touching your handwriting
Getting horny by reading it and repeating poor me
Intently staring at the picture of your feet on the sticker
At the R. Crumb exhibit, I wonder who's sicker

Jerking off in an art museum john till my dick hurts
The kind of shit I won't admit to my head shrinker
Not even in a whisper to my own little sister
I just act like a dick and talk shit when I'm with her

Aught six, I'll say the Friday before Easter
Was not good, I cried to myself in the pisser
And with you in the front row at the Silver Jews show
And you act like you didn't notice, my fear of the bear
At Showbiz Pizza when I saw six was overwhelming and not dissimilar to this

If I'm sinking and something sunken in, I am

At Jacob Han's on tour I wake up
Hung over on a hardwood floor
From a dream about how your dress
Hangs off of your little breasts
I'd rather be dead than call this song
"How I lost your respect" but god bless or get neglected
And I'll see you when the sun sets east, don't forget me



Lyrics submitted by oh ok, edited by Mellow_Harsher

Track duration: 03:50


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  • -3
    General Comment:it's SALT water not soft water.
    Flag poophead3on March 23, 2012   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Right before I listened to this song today, I read that one of the final signs of the Last Judgement in Islam is the sun rising in the West (and presumably setting in the East?). After this sign of the End Times occurs, repentance for one's sins is not accepted. I doubt it has anything to do with the song, but I thought it was a pretty interesting aside, so I thought I'd share.
    Flag janeaparis1on July 29, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Yoni has crohn's disease and thats why hes always talking about bathrooms and getting sick.
    Flag cbergszon April 09, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:"on booze, i'm left in residue and confused like the first time you used soft water" This clearly is a pun but i dont know if its just the pothead in me wanting yoni to smoke but does this line mean hes drunk and out of weed and forgets why so he's confused, bringing in the pun. anyone who's actually showered in soft water would know that after you get out of the shower your skin is slightly slimey and it leaves a residue. plus the "at showbiz pizza when i was six was overwhelming and not dissimilar to this" line ends with him smoking im pretty sure. or i could just be a pothead. both make sense to me. oh and the chorus, to me, means if im being a hypocrit then whatever i am.

    Flag anthonymonacoon October 29, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I always thought this song was about him sinking further into a depressed state due to an overwhelming amount of self pity for his inability to experience everything that brings a feeling of nostalgia as he grows older...

    This whole album makes me feel like they're feeling far older than they are and them not being comfortable with dying because of the uncertainty that comes with death.
    Flag MRMon October 20, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:the only kind of a 'lovesong' i could ever digest
    Flag brokenbiscuiton September 14, 2010   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:"At Jacob Hand's on tour, I wake up hungover on a hardwood floor..."

    Jacob Hand is a photographer and a friend of the band; I believe he's taken some press photos or something like that of the band in the past.
    Flag RaygunShaunon August 15, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:"i'd rather be dead than call this song
    'How I Lost Your Respect' but god bless or get neglected
    and i'll see you when the sun sets east, don't forget me"

    He's speaking in a monotone ("devoid of all hope") for most, if not all, of the song. Yet these lines carry so much.
    Flag Manifest0on August 10, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:"yoni" means vagina in sanskrit. good to know!
    Flag realdadon June 04, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i always heard it as 'eating pussy for new fangs'. like he's of late gotten so drunk down trodden he turned vampire and ate out menstruating bitches. or something.
    Flag spaceron April 10, 2010   Link

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