Shut In

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