Smug - Steve Taylor

Strike this little pose

Chin up in the air

Lips together tightly

Nostrils in a flare

Now look like you care

Ooh, very nice!

Practice in the mirror

Brushing back a tear

Very sincere

A promising career could begin right here at home

If you’ve got that smug

That smug

Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become

Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?

Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?

Is it in our blood?

Rome is burning, we’re here turning smug

Strike another pose

Power politics

Swallow their conventions

Get your power fix

We love to mud wrestle

We love to be politically Koreshed

Practice that smug

Post it like a man

One part Master Limbaugh

Two parts Madame Streisand

Now pretend you’re in a band

My, my, we’re looking smug

Very, very, very, very

Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become

Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?

Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?

Is it in our blood?

Rome is burning, we’re here turning smug

All you smug-starved millions in the thick of the search

Welcome to our church

Whatcha wanna solve?

We can help you evolve

From merely self-righteous

To perfectly smug

Strike the proud pose of our country-club brethren

Friendly as a tomb

Fragrant as the bottom of a locker-room broom

Now what’s the matter?

Hey, get off your knees

That part don’t come 'til later

God will not be pleased

Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become

Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?

Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?

Is it in our blood?

Rome is burning, we’re here turning smug

Hey mama, hey mama look at what your little babies all have become

Hey mama, hey mama, don’t it ever make you wish you’d been a nun?

Vain and fickle, were we weaned on a pickle?

Is it in our blood?

Rome is burning, we’re here turning

Rome is cooking, my, we’re looking smug

I wanna talk today about smug people!

They think they’re so good.

They ain’t good!

No, they ain’t good at all, I tell you what!

You wanna be a

good man, you look at me!

I’m gonna talk to you about humility--'cause I got it!

I wanna talk to you about righteousness--'cause I got it!

I’m good!

I’m humble!

I’m better than you!

You wanna be a humble man, you look at me, you say, «Brother, how can I be humble?»

I don’t know how you can be humble!

It took me a long time to get this way!

But thank God I’ve arrived!

Let’s pray