Lyrics

[Verse 1] My heroes have always been laughingstocks Stuck between the stalls and the stage Living your life is like humming a song Be in tune with yourself, the words will follow along [Chorus] We live our lives in the first-person spectacular It's a rough road and you're my fellow traveller A foreign country and we're the ambassadors An unknown language, a proud vernacular It's our life in the first-person spectacular [Verse 2] Who strokes the belly, who scourges the back? Who has lily-pad money and who's in the black? When language goes walking, it comes when you call Clean beasts by sevens, the fortunate fall [Chorus] We live our lives in the first-person spectacular It's a rough road and you're my fellow traveller A foreign country and we're the ambassadors An unknown language, a proud vernacular It's our life in the first-person spectacular [Verse 3] First toast to health, second to money Third toast to love, the fourth, funny you asked Pour another round, whatever, surprise us The fourth is to crazy love and the trouble it buys us [Verse 4] Many are the means of courage and poverty For temporary gentlemen in sourwood country Stretched over the doorway, the sound of applause Fragile and precious, bright golden gauze For the ones who taught the workers to whistle in key [Chorus] We live our lives in the first-person spectacular It's a rough road and you're my fellow traveller A foreign country and we're the ambassadors An unknown language, a proud vernacular It's our life in the first-person spectacular