The Past Sure Is Tense – Captain Beefheart – letras

The past sure is tensethey’re heading up for the main eventall those people seem to be hell-bentsee those people up on top of the fenceand the man down thereselling knotholes through the fencethe little shoe generation manI found your print on a dollar billI founf your print on an Indian moundI found your print on the statue at the soundI found your print on the elephant groundI found your print in the beautiful mountainsthe grass no longer grew aroundI found your print in my mind -the past sure is tensethe pastsureistenseno you got the wrong ideano you got the wrong intentthe carpenter carpenterized my ventthe only peepholewhere is my dentthe past sure is tensethe past sure is tensethe past sure is nowI don’t see howsee those people that used tothrow those tentsyou can’t see them nowthey’re in past tensethe past sure is tense