SIGNS
A PEACE of TIME
- Track No.
- 3
- Release Date
- November 20, 2007
- Performed by
- Jeff Keith, Brian Wheat,
Frank Hannon, Troy Luccketta
and Dave Rude - Length
- 04:17
- Appears On
- A PEACE of TIME
Five Man Electrical Band (1971)
LYRICS
And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"
So I put my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine outstanding young man,
I think you'll do
So I took off my hat,
I said "Imagine that, huh, me working for you"
Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs
Fuckin' up the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign
And the sign says "Anybody caught trespassing will be shot
on sight"
So I jumped the fence and I yelled to the house
"Hey! What gives you the right!
To put up a fence and keep me out, or to keep Mother Nature in
If God was here, he'd tell it to your face, man, you're some
kind of sinner"
Oh, say now mister, can't you read
You got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't watch, no you can't eat, you ain't supposed to be here
And the sign says "You got to have a membership card to get
inside"
And the sign says "Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down
and pray"
But then they passed around a plate at the end of it all
And I didn't have a penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own fuckin' sign
I said, "Thank you Lord for thinking 'bout me, I'm alive
and doing fine"