Song Description

Bill Colgate - lead vocal/ Cam MacInnes - dobro/ David Woodhead - bass/ David Norris - drums/ Roly Platt - harmonica.

Lyrics

Said Armani to Versace "we've almost got it right
Let's take it once more from the top we've booked him for the night
Now with your high priced whiskey voice we want you to caress
The words that we shall give you and all that they profess
Don't joke about the product say our deathless prose
And we'll take you out and dress you in the Emperor's New Clothes?

This song's about redemption this song's about defeat
This song's about 3 minutes long but it's got this steady beat
That makes me think about The Delta when those cotton balls do blow
Makes me think about Kentucky when my sour mash is low
Makes me think of my dear mama counting all my toes
As she rocked me oh so gently in the Emperor's New Clothes

?Hey Homer? said Euripedes ?I caught your latest rhymes
Let's grab that drink at Sardi's while we're waitin' for The Times
They'll say it was derivative of that I have no doubt
That it's all been done somewhere before so what's the fuss about
An original perspective I wanna get me one of those
So they'll take me out and dress me in the Emperor's New Clothes?

There?s a bird outside my window rap-rap-rappin? on my pane
He is psychically connected to the cortex of my brain
Where he?s sendin' me this message saying ?Who you tryin? to kid?
I know your name I heard your voice I saw just what you did?

It seems there was this Emperor one bright and shiny morn
Went struttin' 'round as naked as the day that he was born
A peasant girl with wonder said "I see his skinny butt"
So they threw her in a dungeon and the door they did nail shut
Now the moral if there is one is to keep your cakehole closed
So they'll take you out and dress you in the Emperor's New Clothes