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  • 4/30/2025
John Prine - Austin City Limits
At ACL Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX, USA
Jun 5, 2018 / Tour: The Tree of Forgiveness
Transcript
00:00It's called the Lonesome Friends of Science
00:14The Lonesome Friends of Science say
00:21The world will end most any day
00:24Well if it does then that's okay
00:27Cause I don't live here anyway
00:30I live down deep inside my head
00:34Well long ago I made my bed
00:37I get my mail in Tennessee
00:40My wife, my dog, and my kids and me
00:44Uh-huh
00:50Now poor old clan and Pluto now
00:54He never stood a chance no how
00:57When he got uninvited to
01:00The interplanetary dance
01:04Once a mighty planet there
01:07Now just an ordinary star
01:10Hanging out in Hollywood
01:13In some old funky sushi bar
01:17The Lonesome Friends of Science say
01:20The world will end most any day
01:24Well if it does then that's okay
01:27Cause I don't live here anyway
01:30I live down deep inside my head
01:34Well long ago I made my bed
01:37I get my mail in Tennessee
01:41I get my mail in Tennessee
01:41My wife, my dog, and my kids and me
01:44Uh-huh
01:45The Vulcan lives in Birmingham
01:54Sometimes he just don't give a damn
01:58His head is full of bumblebees
02:01He wears his pride below his knees
02:04Venus left him long ago
02:08For a guy Nick Marsh from Idaho
02:11The Vulcan sent a wedding gift
02:15Three-legged stool and a wheelchair lift
02:18Uh-huh
02:19The Lonesome Friends of Science say
02:25This world will end most any day
02:28Well if it does then that's okay
02:32Cause we don't live here anyway
02:35I live down deep inside my head
02:39Well long ago I made my bed
02:42I get my mail in Tennessee
02:45My wife, my dog, and my family
02:48Uh-huh
02:50Uh-huh
02:53Uh-huh
02:56Uh-huh
03:00Uh-huh
03:03Those bastards in the white lab
03:12Coats
03:12Who experiment with mountain goats
03:16Should leave the universe alone
03:19It's not their business
03:21Not their home
03:22I go to sleep and it never rains
03:26My dog predicts hurricanes
03:29She can smell a storm a mile away
03:33That's all the news we have today
03:36Uh-huh
03:37The Lonesome Friends of Science say
03:43The world will end most any day
03:46Well if it does then that's okay
03:50Cause I don't live here anyway
03:53I live down deep inside my head
03:57Well long ago I made my bed
04:00I get my mail in Tennessee
04:03My wife, my dog, and my kids and me
04:07Uh-huh
04:08Uh-huh
04:12Uh-huh
04:14Uh-huh
04:16Uh-huh
04:18Uh-huh

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