Conduit For Sale! - Pavement (人行道乐队)

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try (2x)

Imagine if you were Heir Proctor

Alias and nobleman

Son of son of sky and of scion

Part of his rich inheritance

Parceled and generous divorce

Sentence forthwith being

Certain blocks of land

And living quarters deemed

By all gentlemen

And wives thereof

To be grossly humane

And frankly quite un-dirty

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try (2x)

Heir Proctor

In his enviable good taste

Tries quick escape gambit

Via local periodicals

But no takers land an enviable station

In the conduit between two selves

A veritable no-man's-land

Array of the flophouse cardboard materials

And carbon-monoxide wallpaper

All his brig-deck Torino boys ask

Is irrelevant

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try (2x)

(Sung in background under next verse )

Unable to bear the scandal Ray philanthropist

Rents low-down scab house in conduit

Heir Proctor offers said land for a song

But no one wants to sing

In an attempt to retain social privileges

Yet mask it as goodwill

He says to the conduit members

"Take this rotten old tree and make it bear fruit "

Cheers erupted throughout the thin settlement;

An Italian male was heard to say

"Between here and there

Is better than either here or there "

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try (3x)