A Quiet Man - Electric Six

I’m making hardcore moves

Give me that fucking microphone

Unless the weather improves

I’ll drift along in a sea of known unknowns

Shuffling my papers and my salivary glands

The whole world a stage and I’m on stage

I got the whole world in my hands

But I’m a quiet man, I’m such a quiet man

Camera-shy and pee-shy

The furthest thing from inspiring

What a glorious feeling to be standing here amongst all of you

I only wish my mama could’ve been here to see me up here tonight

I never house an animal

Without thinking of its needs

I never create a manimal

Without understanding how it bleeds

But I’m a quiet man

A peaceful honest human man

I much prefer to remain mute

I really don’t have much to say

And I don’t know what you think I saw up there tonight but

Let me assure you that mum’s the word

I’m not gonna go trying to be a hero like Bobby and safety oversight

And go saying things I shouldn’t say, no siree

And I know he would like to say a few words here tonight but

The Government had him killed

And I see his lovely wife-widow, Janice here tonight

She’s got a long difficult road ahead of her now

Let’s tell her how we’ll always be there for her

And buy her a gin and tonic at the cash bar with a twist of lime

If you don’t get a little choked up just thinking about all that

Well then you ain’t got a soul, buddy

Oh and by the way

It don’t take debonair or class

To make your mark in oil and gas

Just learn to look the other way

And it will all be okay

I swear it’ll be okay