Lyrics Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo

House Fall Down

I met a tugboat captain

The stories he could tell

Of a sailor's life in the shallow water

The saddest yarn he'd spin, it happened on dry land

He saw his house fall down

It shed it's bricks and it dropped to the ground

Ah, well, made him feel so bad,

he thinks about it and he crys.

Ah, well, made him feel so mad,

Don't want to think about it now.

You never walk out, or even look away

He had a house torn down, swipe a deed and start breaking ground

Drop some mortar, we'll be rippin' up your asphalt

Another house goes down, and another house,

and another drops to the ground, drops to the ground