Loudon Wainwright Iii - Cobwebs lyrics

Well it stumbles and it falls off of almost every tongue Give a listen and you'll hear It's workin' like a landmine in almost every sentence It's an a**ault to my mind's ear Yeah it might have started back with Jack Kerouac Probably more than likely it was Maynard G. Krebs It's the four letter word that used to mean 'as if' And the meaning's covered in cobwebs Cobwebs Used to be a preposition then it was a conjunction Now it's used as an audible pause Oh I hate it when I hear it especially when I see it Gotta stamp it out there ought to be some laws College boys valley girls mall rats grandmammas Everybody's mis-usin' that word I heard it four times in one poor little sentence It was the saddest sound I ever have heard Cobwebs, cobwebs, cobwebs I suppose you could blame it on my generation Chickens from the 60's finally comin' into roost I've been sayin' it myself for over 30 years now Just to give my cool quota just a little bitty kind of a boost But when I hear it, I can't stand it Especially coming out of the mouths of one of my own kids It's been taught and, God, what have we wrought? Give a listen here, what do we dig? I prefer ah or er, you can rest a**ured If you're sayin' what you mean then it don't mean a thing It's just an ugly little four letter word Doesn't anybody care or am I the only one? Am I just stuck back in some kind of a past? Maybe it's harmless but it feels like a virus And it sounds like it's catchin' on fast Cobwebs, cobwebs