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Random Rules
Information
- Title: Random Rules
- Written by: D.C.Berman
- Original by: Silver Jews
Lyrics
In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction.
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake.
I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake.
I know you like to line dance, everything so democratic and cool,
But baby there's no guidance when random rules.
I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls.
Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls.
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
and that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:
"Yeah, you look like someone
Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low.
Boy, you look like somene I used to know."
I asked the painter why the roads are colored black.
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
and no highway will bring them back."
So if you don't want me I promise not to linger,
But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.
No one should have two lives,
now you know my middle names are wrong and right.
Honey we've got two lives to give tonight.
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction.
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake.
I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake.
I know you like to line dance, everything so democratic and cool,
But baby there's no guidance when random rules.
I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls.
Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls.
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
and that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:
"Yeah, you look like someone
Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low.
Boy, you look like somene I used to know."
I asked the painter why the roads are colored black.
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
and no highway will bring them back."
So if you don't want me I promise not to linger,
But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.
No one should have two lives,
now you know my middle names are wrong and right.
Honey we've got two lives to give tonight.
Available on:
- Dean & Britta - L'Avventura (Jetset, 2003)
- Dean & Britta - L'Avventura (Double Feature, 2008)
- Dean & Britta - L'Avventura (Double Feature, 2008)
- Dean & Britta - L'Avventura (Double Feature, 2024)
Played live
by Dean & Britta
This is collected from set list data which is incomplete
| 19th June 2003 | Great American, San Francisco CA, USA Dean & Britta setlist |
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| 21st June 2003 | Double Door, Chicago IL, USA Dean & Britta setlist |
| 24th June 2003 | Village Underground, New York NY, USA Dean & Britta setlist |
| 19th March 2007 | High Noon Saloon, Madison WI, USA Dean & Britta setlist |
| 10th April 2007 | Aladdin Theatre, Portland OR, USA Dean & Britta setlist |
| 18th June 2007 | Sussex Arts Club, Brighton, UK Dean & Britta setlist |
| 12th July 2007 | Rams Head Tavern, Annapolis MD, USA Dean & Britta setlist |
| 31st December 2007 | Maxwells, Hoboken NJ Dean & Britta setlist |
| 26th September 2020 | Dean & Britta's living room, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA Dean & Britta live stream setlist poster |