All the suffering, all the suffering all the suffering in the world Shouldn't make you think that coming out to drink with me is wrong. There's some people who will tell you it's a waste of time and money-- Hypocrites! They spend their workday wasting beauty all day long.
Sitting in your home with your electrical devices, Do you really think that that's a life that suffices? Say that you are trying to avoid a crisis-- You're already in one!
Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in, The time to come is gonna be the test of us. Shut in, shut in, shut in, Come out and suffer with the rest of us.
Too young, too old, too ugly, too fucked up, To be out her drinking at the bar? Excuse me, Sunshine, what did you think The rest of us are out here drinking for?
Did you know the declaration of the Rights of Man Was written after 5 hours drinking at the tavern They drank 7 barrels of beer and wine, And 9 casks of brandy, and then they got to work.
Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in, The sin of despair happens to the best of us. Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in, Come out and suffer with the rest of us.
Now this next verse is just a list of bars that I have drunk in Some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved them all. The Menagerie Belfast, Green Dragon Croydon Black Dog Edmonton Black Sheep in Wakefield, Gastown, where the Elephant was Cruel,
Times Change(d) Winnipeg, the Clown and Bard of course, in Prague, 1000 Fryd in Aalborg, Evening Star in Brighton by the Sea. Church of the Holy Chicken, Cumberland, and Logan's Tavern of the Damned Victoria—it's all just poetry to me.
Mir and MONO, both in Oslo, planet Kensington in old punk Toronto, Montreal, it's the Casa Del Popolo
Cafe Opera, Cafee Burger, Feinkost Lampe, Vega, Strega, Reitschule Patronaat El Lokal Cementen and my home, at home The Railway Club--
Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in, I know you probly think I sound ridiculous Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in Come on out and suffer with the rest of us. Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in, Can't you see I'm trying to make a hornet's nest of us? Shut in, shut in, shut in, shut in, Come out and suffer with the rest of us.