She walks into Smokey's

one hip at a time

Like a broken field runner

slippin' through the lines

He likes the way she looks

so he calls up his wife

says don't wait up for me,

I'll be workin late tonight.

Wife hangs up the phone burst tears

calls her sister up and cries get over here.



Sister tells her boyfriend be back in awhile

boyfriends wants a beer, the store is just a mile.

Leaves the motor runnin' he'll only be a minute,

his car drives away with teenagers in it.

Driver tells his buddies, got one life to live

they scream into the night, lets get it over with.



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Cause and effect, chain of events,

all of the caos makes perfect sense,

when we're spinnin' round,

things come undone.

Welcome to the earth, third rock from the sun.



The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve

Heads for a semi-truck, jumps the curb

Truck hits a bigboy in the Shoney's parking lot

Flies through the air, takes out the bank clock

Clock strikes a light pole, transformer sparks

lines go down, town goes dark.



Waitress calls the cops says she saw it all

swears a giant alien has landed at the mall

Cops ring up the mayor says there's panic in the street,

hate to wake you up but we cant find the chief,

mayor says use your head, if he ain't in his car

he's hiding from his wife, down at Smokey's bar



Chorus