Jace Everett - Lloyd's Summer Vacation lyrics

Now lloyd was unaccustomed to the company he kept That night he pulled out all the stops Yeah, it was nothing but the best He proffered kosher funnel cakes Hell, he powdered every plate Poured them all some manischevitz So they wouldn't mind the wait He was all like, "come in, come in now. Please, please take a seat" While his giggling girls, they twittered down the hall But you could almost smell the tension Through the windows, from the street Yeah, you could almost read the writing on the wall Yeah the writings on the walls Folks greased up their little torches And they pitch forked 'round the house They cried, "we'd like to get to know them lloyd, Why don't you send them out?" Slipping through the front door, lloyd he begged them to decist Then he made them all an offer even he could not resist Meanwhile, his guests are getting restless As they scrape back in their chairs Poke their beaks out of the windows and glower down the stairs They yanked ol' lloyd back in the house told him, "good god man, pack up the kids, pack up the wife, And fire up the van!!" Soaking up the rain With a shaker full of salt Gotta get away You better, you better Soaking up the rain With a shaker full of salt Gotta get away So lloyd packed up the family And they headed it ouf town (this was before the ocean died, see, and walls burned to the ground) They said, "just keep on drivin' man. Maybe hide out in the woods." So very few instructions Even fewer understood Now mamma, don't look back in anger Mamma don't look back at all But she never could contain herself (no it's really not her fault) She had her mothers crystal china and her daddys crystal balls Then a flash, then a bang, then a shaker full of salt Soaking up the rain With a shaker full of salt Gotta get away No it ain't her fault Soaking up the rain With a shaker full of salt Gotta get away Poor old what's her face… Later in the evening after everything they'd seen Those whispering, giggling girls cooked up a nasty little scheme The buggers and the beggars would have shook their heads in shame But they didn't get the chance man, they was soaking up the rain! A little drop of poison in a jigger full of wine You keep it in the family, it all works out in time See lloyd was not the kind of man to love and leave a lady He raised up two strong daughters Then he made his own grand babies!