The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind

歌詞

Apehead's brother wants to beat up Paul The boys have gone to watch Some of the girls are down at the mall, Justine's got cherry cola and Scotch And later on it's everyone round to Bec's Her parents are away in New York But Sarah, well, she just can't bear, The stupidity, the boredom, the grind, She stays at school, so she can hear The sound of the life of the mind And it's noisy up there, it rocks like a mother Rosa Parks and DNA Joan of Arc and JFK Yeah it's noisy up there, it rocks like a mother She's cut them all out of her social circle Won't introduce them to Lincoln or Frost Doesn't want them to get to know Keats or Studs Terkel They'll never learn what they've lost But Sarah, well, she just can't bear, The stupidity, the boredom, the grind, She stays at school, so she can hear The sound of the life of the mind And it's noisy up there, it rocks like a mother Copernicus and Fortune's Wheel Plato, Glenn Gould and the New Deal Yeah it's noisy up there, it rocks like a mother Sarah knows already pretty soon she'll be leaving Once she's hoovered up whatever she can find She doesn't want to hear about pregnancies Foam fights, TV, takeouts, half-sex, weddings The sound of the life she'll leave behind And it's noisy up there, it rocks like a mother Yeah it's noisy up there, it rocks like a mother