Straight Street - The Fiery Furnaces

Tea time at Damascus computer cafe

I’m looking busy and staring off the other way

Leverkusen, Juventus;

Leeds vs. Valencia:

I’m over-hearing all their nonsense in extensia

They’re talking too tough for me to inspect

So I have a smell who seems the best to connect

I pick my clique and set to go to work

But the only thing they care about is to whom to play the Turk

So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight

Cursing myself cause I got there too late

I traded an expired credit card for two cupfulls of water;

They had a dirty beany baby so for good luck I bought her

I rented a Hyundai with two flats and no windshield

No speedometer and a handbrake that squealed;

When the sun came up I couldn’t put down the visor

So I put on my hat and a question to my local advisor:

Whose trucks are those that parked up by the town?

But he only would mumble with his eyes pointed down

So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight

Cursing myself cause I got there too late

My boss the head of sales for Western Asia

Said you’ll get fired if your opposite from Nokia plays ya

If he beats you for the battle of hearts and minds

Tells 'em we use pig by-products in our designs

So when I saw my rival’s smile didn’t get diminished

No one had to tell me I knew that we were Finnished:

You boys from Ericsson better get in the back seat

Cause your phones are getting stoned over on that straight street

So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight

Cursing myself cause I got there too late

So I went to Georgia looking at spas and convents

Tried to make myself the broker for selling off the contents

At the big change clinic my friends said don’t be a cynic

You should work in Baku this is watcha gotta do

Call a contact in Texas talk to 'em in their Lexus

On their hands-free device and don’t seem too nice

But in my teleconference with Houston

They told me I wasn’t any use to 'em

So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight

Cursing myself cause I got there too late

Tea time at Damascus computer cafe

I’m looking busy and staring off the other way

Arsenal, Inter;

Madrid vs. Valencia:

I’m over-hearing all their nonsense in extensia

They’re talking too tough for me to inspect

So I have a smell who seems the best to connect

I pick my clique and set to go to work

But the only thing they care about is to whom to play the Turk

So I walked up the length of the Street they call Straight

Cursing myself cause I got there too late