Conduit For Sale! Lyrics - Pavement

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

Imagine if you will Herr Proctor, alias a nobleman 

Son of son of Scion and Scion, part of his rich inheritance 

Parcel in generous divorced sense forklift beam 

Certain plots of land and living 

Quarters deemed by all gentlemen 

And wives thereof, to be grossly humane and frankly, quite undirty 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

Herr Proctor, in his enviable good taste tries quick escape gambit 

Via local periodicals, but no takers the land and he 

Was stationed in a conduit between two cells 

A veritable no man's land, rain, the flophouse, cog bone terrors 

And carbon monoxide wallpaper all his brig deck Trina 

Boys ask "Is it livable?" 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

Unable to bear the scandal, Ray, philanthropist 

Rents low-down scab house in conduit 

Herr Proctor offers said land for a song, but no one wants to sing 

In an attempt to maintain social privileges 

Yet mask it as goodwill, he says to the conduit members 

Take this rotten old tree and make it bear fruit 

Cheers erupted throughout the things settlement 

An Italian male was heard to say 

Between here and there is better than anything over there 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' 

I'm tryin'