New Way Out

New Way Out
Song
Artist	Lemon Demon
Released	2005
Written by	Neil Cicierega
Appears on	Damn Skippy
Sung by	Neil Cicierega
Duration	4:08
Tempo	105
Genre	Rock
Language	English, Japanese
Links:	Needlejuice Remaster Original MP3 Original FLAC YouTube Remastered YouTube

New Way Out is the sixth track on Damn Skippy. According to Neil in the album's commentary track, "The lyrics to this are utterly meaningless. They’re not supposed to convey any sort of feeling. I just needed something to fill it up. If you try to pick this one apart, you have problems."

Lyrics

One, two… A-one, two, three, four.

Burger King fries on a dashboard underneath the burning hot sun.
Burger King fries on a dashboard underneath the burning hot sun.
Serpentine alarm clock, ringing up a horrid little kamikaze ding dinga-ding dinga-ding.
Serpentine alarm clock, ringing up a horrid little kamikaze ding dinga-ding ding ding.
Jimi Hendrix Jr. with rock ‘n’ roll soccer mom. (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.)
Puttin’ Michael Jackson on a rocket ship to Vietnam. (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.)
Burger King fries on a dashboard underneath the burning hot sun.
Burger King fries on a dashboard underneath the burning hot sun.

Nana korobi ya oki. [Translation: "Fall down seven times, Get up eight" or "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again"]
Rooma wa ichinichi ni shite narazu, baby. [Translation: "Rome wasn't built in a day"]
I don’t know my way around,
But if I follow every sound,
A new way out is soon surrounding me.

And lo and behold, the very next morning, they climbed out of bed and gazed out upon the morning world. And to their complete and utter amazement, it had not snowed at all. The end.

Don’t mean to bug, but I thought I’d tell you that your shoes are untied.
Don’t mean to bug, but I thought I’d tell you that your shoes are untied.
In livin’ in an illin’ villakin I kinda caterwauled, “Olly olly oxen free!”
In livin’ in an illin’ villakin I kinda caterwauled, “Marco! Polo! Vive le sanity!”
Oh, running ‘round in circles like a Chupacabra Capybara. (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.)
Jamming on the harpsichord to Chris-a-tina Aguilera. (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.)
Don’t mean to bug, but I thought I’d tell you that your shoes are untied.
Don’t mean to bug, but I thought I’d tell you that your shoes are untied.

Nana korobi ya oki.
Rooma wa ichinichi ni shite narazu, baby.
I don’t know my way around,
But if I follow every sound,
A new way out is soon surrounding me.

Nana korobi ya oki.
Rooma wa ichinichi ni shite narazu, baby.
Nana korobi ya oki.
Rooma wa ichinichi ni shite narazu, baby.
Nana korobi ya oki.
Rooma wa ichinichi ni shite narazu, baby.
Nana korobi ya oki.

Trivia

• Neil's high pitched vocals in the count-in at the start of the song were achieved by sucking helium from a balloon.
• The lyric "And lo and behold, the very next morning, they climbed out of bed and gazed out upon the morning world. And to their complete and utter amazement, it had not snowed at all. The end." is a quote taken from the end of Why the Hell Won't it Snow?, a short film Neil made in 2002.