Salt Lake City 1973 Lyrics

Salt Lake City 1973 lyrics

Mormon's are everywhere 

 battalions of bicycling bachelors 

 with dark suits 

 and well cropped hair 

 we're Mormons too 

 have been since '72 

 I'm riding between my brother and sister 

 in the back seat of a '67 Buick station wagon 

 with red vinyl seats 

 we stick by each other 

 and to those seats 

 we've been eating cheese and bacon sandwiches 

 our mother made for thirteen days straight in the August heat 

 and both my siblings are wakin' on those eggshells 

 as I will soon learn how to do myself 

 they play their quiet silly games 

 with their peashooters 

 as I sip luke-warm Sprite from a tin can 

 sold to me by a hunchback silly bastard old woman 

 a hundred miles back 

 who is probably the only person with good sense 

 in this part of the country 

 I still don't know what to do god-awful bacon and cheese sandwich 

 but your body is your temple 

 God tells us so, 

 so drink up your milk 

 and reap what you sow 

 I mold the cheese and bacon sandwich into a ball in my hand 

 it kind of reminds me of Play-dough 

 I look around to see who is watchin' 

 and stuff it between the red vinyl seats 

 no one will find it 

 at least not for a couple of weeks 

 we're in this big place now 

 it's kind of like 1/2 of an blue plastic Easter egg shell 

 and there's a hole in the top 

 where the sun cuts through 

 and lights up the room 

 and I hear all these male voices 

 telling me that black people are inferior 

 and it's ok to have more than one wife 

 and as the dry dry breath of the utah sun warms me 

 I stand before a statue of Jesus that is far too big 

 and has held these folks hostage for so so long 

 and I gaze up at the nostrils of the sandstone savior 

 and wonder if it 

 can smell all this bullshit 

 cause I sure can 

 and I'm only 5 years old 

 in Salt Lake City 

 in 1973...