Everybody Needs a Body (To Be Somebody) - The Burning Hell

I was out for a walk downtown last Saturday night

Coming back from a show or something like that

And I looked up at the sky and it was dark and covered with clouds

And I thought about how I needed to get some kind of job

And I thought about how living out of a van isn’t as romantic as it’s made out

to be

Especially when the only one in the van is me

And I sat down on the curb and watched a squirrel get hit by a car

And I wondered where you are, whoever you are

Every bit of the body needs something to do

Every good album needs a slow song or two

So out with the adenoids and in with the ballads

Every future needs androids, every model needs salads

Well as I was sitting there looking from the dead squirrel to the distant

taillights of the car that hit it

I thought about how if I did have a real job I’d probably last two weeks and

then quit it

And I thought about how my van was pretty nice after all and since I was in my

30s now it seemed appropriate to be driving a minivan anyway

Even if I didn’t have an apartment or my own driveway

And then some university girls passed me on their way to 80s night and they

were all wearing the same kind of pants

I was sitting on the curb so I didn’t notice their faces but they all seemed

excited to dance

And I thought about how when I dance people often think I have some kind of

rare syndrome or disease

So I don’t dance too often but I’d like to dance as often as I pleased

Cause every bit of the body needs something to do

Even agoraphobics need the occasional public rendezvous

You’ve got to keep dancing if you want to meet some kind of woman or some kind

of man

And we’re all dancing as fast as we can

Everybody needs a body to be somebody

Everybody needs a body to be somebody…