Lyrics

[Intro] Come gather 'round, friends from all ends of the earth And I'll give you the dirt for what it's worth [Chorus] They said it wouldn't work No, they said it wouldn't work But this is the ballad of Railroad Jerk This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk [Verse 1] There was a lot of fast talk on the slow track, man And my baby, she left and she never came back We got a ten-million-dollar record contract Then I swear I nearly almost had a heart attack Well, the wind was blowing from the north to the south And we caught 'em talking out of both sides of their mouth From the corporate heads down to the missus uptown I triеd to get all the big shots to calm down You know, genius only comеs to a chosen few And we are no exception Raised on television [Refrain] Hello, Tuesday Goodbye, Monday Right, yeah, come on Yeah, alright [Chorus] Well, they said it wouldn't work They said it wouldn't work But this is the ballad of Railroad Jerk This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk [Verse 2] Yeah, hellfire and brimstone My mind is on the grindstone I got myself, I'm ready for the shit to hit the wall And the tenth annual top ten video masquerade ball I put on my slouch hat, my boots, and my sack dress Some rouge and some lipstick and some polish for practice I pushed my old hand truck down the old dirt road I may have been complete, but I was not sold They said, "Play 'Glamorous Bitch' one more time" My friends all have credit cards, but I have been denied Then I heard them singing beneath the pale sky They said, "I'm so lonesome, I could cry" [Refrain] You can't scare me I'm half-crazy Hey, right, come on, yeah [Chorus] Well, they said it wouldn't work No, they said it wouldn't work But this is the ballad of Railroad Jerk This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk [Verse 3] When the loser went AWOL, we took him off the payroll We lowered him down to the tune of a drumroll We wiped away the plate, we took away the slate We thought we were solid up on top of the hill But we found out it was really only landfill Alright [Verse 4] So when the bars all close and the subways are cracking The party that you went to just wasn't really happening The lights are dim, the shades are drawn The national anthem on TV just went on And you find that the blind are just killing the blind And you don't want to be one of those kind Well, don't despair because they said it wouldn't work (Hello, Tuesday) With that look on their face and that smirk, smirk (Goodbye, Monday) Yeah, but that's what they told us, but I knew it would work (You can't scare me) And you can find my name on the tail of my shirt (I'm half-crazy) [Chorus] This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk This is the ballad of Railroad Jerk