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Ugly Man

from Imaginary Dancer by The Shut-Ups

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Don says:

Don’t smile at the Ugly Man. There’s nothing worse than false hope.

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Ugly man
Somewhere an ugly man
Hippo head, mosquito face, the evidence of evolution gone awry
He thinks of you
And he thinks of me
And he thinks about the glitter, the glamour, the glory we embodify

He lives for us
And what we represent
And what gets him through the evening
Is the dream that our existence is magnificent

As a younger man
He was a troubled soul
He kneel beside his bed at night and pray to God a better life awaited him.
And in a way it did
Cuz he gave up on love
Reluctantly accepting that his mother had severely overrated him.

I’m a pretty boy
And you’re a pretty girl
The world demands we get it on
And when we get it on we look real good!

The Ugly Man
I’m he understands
I’m sure he tries to be content
That somewhere someone’s making somebody feel good.

The ugly thing
Would be to humor him
Pretend you find him charming and your smile will stalk him in his little dreams tonight
Just turn your back
Let him fade to black
‘Cuz if he’s doomed to darkness, how cruel it is to make him think he’s seen the light
There is no light for him

So raise a beer
And shed a tear
That, in the end, the love you make
Is not at all related to the love you crave

We could have been like him
No, but we’re not like him
All we can do is be ourselves
And hope he finds salvation in an early grave

And so tonight
We’ll dedicate our love
To the Ugly Man
And we’ll let it be
The best we ever had!

Cuz shouldn’t we be just as lovely
As he thinks we are?

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from Imaginary Dancer, released January 1, 2009

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We're a five-piece new-wave power-pop band from Atlanta and Athens, GA and practice daily at 6AM. We do more before 8AM than most bands do all week.

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