where were you when Kennedy got shot
when they laid the first stones at Angkor Wat
when Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner
when they wheeled the Kitty Hawk outta the hangar
when Jesus Christ got nailed to a cross
when a model agent discovered Kate Moss
when Einstein worked as a patent clerk
when Robert Shaw got eaten by a shark
when Sgt Pepper got designed by Blake
when Lisbon got wiped out by a quake
when Darwin wrote the Origin of the Species
when Marie Curie wrote her radioactive theses
when Neil Armstrong put boots on the moon
when soldiers entered the Paris commune
when Krakatoa blew its top
when Lady Jane Grey knelt down for the chop
when Fleming checked a petri dish
when Charlie Chaplin met Lillian Gish
when Genghis Khan united Mongolia
when Virginia Woolf wrote books in Fitzrovia
when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank
when quantum theory got written by Planck
when plague stalked Europe in the fourteenth century
when Capone did time in Alcatraz penitentiary
hmm?
you just sit there, ordering juices
dreaming up lots of lame excuses
jim clayton 