Four Seconds
Barenaked Ladies

Goes to show
It's not what you know
(But) who you know
So's, you know
I can go with the flow
Build my note
Then throw to snow
Before the show
Stay low
Play it on a Dobro
Oh, I tiptoe to and fro
From Ontario
My stereo's blue like the rodeo
Growing like a freak show free throw
It's just the intro
Keep dropping like dominoes

One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four

Now rewind
What'd you have in mind?
Could we unwind?
I'm fine
We can find a streamline
Recombine, intertwine
If I'm gonna headline
Tryin' to be moving all the behinds
Line to line
Try to shine
Redesigned, redefined
Keeping up the spellbind
Gotta make it worth the grind
Just in time to have another close encounter of the third kind

One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four

I've been away for years and a day
You'd be thinking I'd be lonely
But I'm out here to stay
Wouldn't have it any other way

Oh flip, the light is turning orange
Coat ripped when I caught it in the door hinge
I slip when the lady in the four-inch
Bought it in a store in Germany
You wore it like a makeshift snowdrift
Had to get a gift
Saw the red shift rift
Gretta got an eyelift
Oh sure, that one's obscure
Maybe piss-poor, but I had to take a little detour

I've been away for years and a day
You'd be thinking I'd be lonely
But I'm out here to stay
Wouldn't have it any other way

One Mississippi
Two Mississippi
Three Mississippi
Four


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  [Untitled] [*]   7 8 9   7, 8, 9   789   A   A Message To You Rudy   A Word For That   Adrift   Adrift (Outtake)   Adrift [#][Outtake][Version]   Adrift [Acoustic]   Adrift [DVD]   Alcohol   Allergies   Alternative Girlfriend   Alternative Girlfriend [DVD]   Aluminium   Aluminum   Aluminum (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Aluminum [Acoustic Version]   Am I The Only One?   Angry People   Angry People [Bonus Track]   Angry People [Live]   Another Heartache   Another Heartbreak   Another Heartbreak [Acoustic] [*]   Another Postcard   Another Postcard (Acoustic)   Another Postcard (Chimps)   Another Postcard [Acoustic Version]   Another Spin   Another Spin [Bonus Track]   Auld Lang Syne   Baby It's Cold Outside   Baby Seat   Back   Back [Non-Album Track]   Bad Day   Bank Job   Bank Job [Acoustic]   Bank Job [DVD]   Bank Job [Live]   Barenaked Ladies - Stunt - 11- Told You So   Bass Solo   Bass Solo   Be My Yoko Ono   Be My Yoko Ono [Acoustic]   Be My Yoko Ono [Acoustic][Live]   Beautiful   Beautiful [Bonus Track]   Beautiful [DVD]   Best Damn Friend   Big Bang Theory Theme   Blacking Out   Blame It On Me   Boomerang   Boomerang (Mark Endert Mix)   Born Human   Box Set   Break Your Heart   Break Your Heart (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Break Your Heart [Edit]   Brian Wilson   Brian Wilson (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Brian Wilson [DVD]   Brian Wilson [Live]   Bull In A China Shop   Bull in a China Shop [Acoustic]   Burned   Call And Answer   Call Me Calmly   Canadian Snacktime Popcorn   Canadian Snacktime Snacktime   Canadian Snacktime Trilogy: I) Snacktime   Canadian Snacktime Vegetable To   Canadian Snacktime Vegetable Town   Careless   Carol Of The Bells   Celebrity   Celebrity (Album Version)   Christmas Pics   Christmastime (Oh Yeah)   Close To You   Comes A Time   Conventioneers   Couldn't Care Less   Crawl   Crazy   Crazy ABC's   Crazy ABC's   Curious   Daydreamin'   Deck The Stills   Did I Say That Out Loud?   Do They Know It's Christmas   Do They Know It's Christmas?   Do They Know It's Christmas?   Down To Earth   Down To Earth [Bonus Track]   Drawing   Duct Tape Heart   Easy   Easy [Acoustic]   Easy [DVD]   Easy [Live]   Ed's Uncle Elwyn   Elf's Lament   Elf's Lament   Enid   Enid [DVD]   Enid [Live]   Eraser   Every Subway Car   Everything Had Changed   Everything Is New Again   Everything Old Is New Again   Fall Back On   Falling For The First Time   Falling for the First Time [DVD]   Falling for the First Time [Live]   Farmboy Homeboy   Fight The Power   Fog of Writing   Food Party   Footprints   For You   For You [Acoustic]   For You [Acoustic][Live]   Four Seconds [Acoustic] [*]   Fox On The Run   Fun & Games   Fun & Games [Bonus Track]   Fun & Games   Fun and Games   Gangster Girl   Get Back Up   Get In Line   Get in Line [Live]   Give It Back to You   Globetrot   Go Home   God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman\/We Three Kings   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Featuring Sarah McLac...   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings (Featur...   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen\/We Three Kings   Golden Boy   Gonna Walk   Govatsos Shuffle   Grade 9   Grade 9 [DVD]   Graffiti Love   Great Provider   Green Christmas   Grim Grinning Ghosts   Grim Grinning Ghosts (the Haunted Mansion Theme)   Half A Heart   Half A Heart [Bonus Track]   Half a Heart [DVD]   Hanukkah Blessings   Hanukkah Blessings (Album Version)   Hanukkah O Hanukkah (Live)   Hanukkah, Oh, Hanukkah   Have You Seen My Love   Have You Seen My Love?   Have You Seen My Love?   Having A Baby   Helicopters   Hello City   Here Before   Here Come The Geese   Hidden Sun   History Of Everything   Hold My Hand   Home   Home (All New Revue-Live at the Glenn Gould Theatr...   Home [Acoustic]   How Long   Humongous Tree   Humor Of The Situation   Humour Of The Situation   Humungous Tree   I Can I Will I Do   I Can I Will I Do [DVD]   I Can Sing   I Can, I Will, I Do   I Can, I Will, I Do [DVD]   I Don't Get It Anymore   I Don't Like   I Have a Dreidel   I Have A Little Dreidel   I Have a Little Dreidel (Album Version)   I Have a Little Dreydell   I Have Learned   I Know   I Live With It Every Day   I Love You   I Saw It   I Saw Three Ships   I'll Be That Girl   I'll Be That Girl   If I Had $1,000,000   If I Had $1,000,000 (Live) [Seattle 7-25-04]   If I Had $1,000,000 [DVD]   If I Had $1,000,000 [Edit]   If I Had $1,000,000 [Yellow Tape Version]   If I Had $1000000   If I Had $1000000 [Live]   If I Had $10000000   If I Had A $1,000,000   If I Had A $1000000   If I Had A Million Dollars   If I Should Fall   In The Car   In The Drink   Inline Bowline   Intermittently   It's All Been Done   It's All Been Done (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   It's All Been Done [DVD]   It's Christmas Time   It's Christmas Time (Oh Yeah)   It's Christmas Time(oh Yeah)   It's Only Me   It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)   It's Only Me (Wizard of Magicland)   It's Only Me [DVD]   It's Only Me   Its All Been Done Before   Jane   Jane [Live]   Jerome   Jingle Bells   Just A Toy   Keepin' It Real   King of Bedside Manor   Leave   Let There Be Light   Life In A Nutshell   Life, In A Nutshell   Light Up My Room   Lilac Girl   Limits   Little Green Bag (feat. Tom Jones)   Little Tiny Song   Long Way Back Home   Long While [#][Demo Version]   Louis Loon   Love We're In   Lovers In A Dangerous Time   Make My Heart Fly   Matter Of Time   Maybe Katie   Maybe Katie (Acoustic)   Maybe Katie [Acoustic Version]   Maybe Not   Maybe Not [Bonus Track]   Maybe Not [DVD]   Maybe You're Right   Maybe You're Right   Mcdonald's Girl   Mcdonald's Girl   Million Dollars   Moonstone   My Big Sister   Narrow Streets   Never Do Anything   Never Is Enough   New Kid   New Kid (on The Block)   New Kid (On The Block)   New Kid (On the Block) [DVD]   Next Time   Next Time (Acoustic Version)   Next Time [Acoustic Version]   Night Photographs   Northern Lights   Odds Are   Odds Are [Acoustic]   Off His Head   Off The Hook   Old Apartment   Old Apartment (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Old Apartment [#][Demo Version]   Old Apartment [DVD]   On the Lookout   One And Only   One And Only [Bonus Track]   One Little Slip   One Week   One Week (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   One Week (Pull's Break Remix)   One Week (Remix)   One Week [1999 Pull's Break Remix]   One Week [DVD]   One Week [Live]   Oneweek   Ordinary   Our Blue Dot   Passcode   Peterborough And The Kawarthas   Piece of Cake   Pinch Me   Pinch Me (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Pinch Me [DVD]   Pinch Me [Live]   Pinch Me [Radio Edit]   Pollywog In A Bog   Powder Blue   Powder Blue [Live]   Powder Blue [Non-Album Track]   Psycho Killer   Quality   Raisins   Really Don't Know   Really Don't Know   Road Runner   Roadrunner   Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer   Rule The World With Love   Running Out Of Ink   Running Out Of Ink [Bonus Track]   Running out of Ink [DVD]   Same Thing   Same Thing (Live)   Same Thing [Live][#]   Satellite   Say What You Want   Second Best   Second Best (Acoustic)   Second Best (demo)   Second Best [#][Demo Version]   Second Best [Acoustic Version]   Sell Sell Sell   Sell, Sell, Sell   Serendipity   Serendipity [Bonus Track]   Seven Little Monsters Theme Song   Shake Your Rump   Shake Your Rump (Live)   Shake Your Rump [Live][#]   She's On Time   She's On Time   Shoe Box   Shoe Box (Album Version)   Shoe Box (Radio Remix)   Shoe Box [DVD]   Shoe Box [Radio Mix]   Shoebox   Shopping   Shopping (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Silverball   Sleigh Ride   Smile   Snowman   Snowmen   Some Fantastic   Some Fantastic (Ivory and Ivory)   Some Fantastic (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-04]   Something You'll Never Find   Something You'll Never Find [Bonus Track]   Something You'll Never Find [DVD]   Something You'll Never Find   Sound Of Your Voice   Sound of Your Voice [Acoustic]   Sound of Your Voice [Live]   Spider In My Room   Stomach Vs. Heart   Stomache VS Heart   Straw Hat & Ol' Dirty Hank   Straw Hat And Ol' Dirty Hank   Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank   Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank (Live) [Holmdel 7-14-...   Stunt   Summertime   Take It Back   Take It Outside   Teenage Wasteland   Teenage Wasteland (Live)   Teenage Wasteland [Live][#]   Testing 1, 2, 3   Testing 1, 2, 3 [Acoustic Version]   Testing 1,2,3   Thanks That Was Fun   Thanks That Was Fun [DVD]   Thanks, That Was Fun   The Ballad Of Gordon   The Big Bang Theory   The Canadian Snacktime Trilogy   The Canadian Snacktime Trilogy: Popcorn   The Canadian Snacktime Trilogy: Snacktime   The Canadian Snacktime Trilogy: Vegetable Town   The Flag   The Fog Of Writing   The Humor of the Situation   The Humour Of The Situation   The King Of Bedside Manor   The Love We're In   The New Sad   The New Sad [Bonus Track]   The New Sad [DVD]   The Ninjas   The Old Apartment   The Old Apartment [DVD]   The Old Apartment [Radio Remix]   The Wrong Man Was Convicted   There's A Spider In My Room   These Apples   They Long To Be Close To You   Things   This Is It   This Is Where It Ends   Tired of Fighting with You   Toe to Toe   Told You So   Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel   Tonight Is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel/Hi...   Too Little Too Late   Too Little Too Late [Live]   Trouble With Tracy   Trust Me   Trust Me (Previously Unreleased)   Trust Me [#]   Uncle Elwyn   Unfinished   Upside Down   Vanishing   Vegetable Town   War On Drugs   Watching the Northern Lights   We Three Kings   What A Good Boy   What A Letdown   What a Letdown [DVD]   What A Wild Tune   When I Fall   When I Fall [Live]   When You Dream   When You Dream [Home Demo]   Who Can It Be Now   Who Knew   Who Knew?   Who Needs Sleep   Who Needs Sleep?   Why Say Anything Nice?   Why Say Anything Nice? [DVD]   Wind It Up   Wind It Up [Acoustic]   Wishing   Wishing Well   Wonderful Christmastime   Words & Music By Steven Page   Words & Music By Steven Page & Ed Robertson   Wrap Your Arms Around Me   Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes Yes [Audio DVD][#][*]   Yes, Yes, Yes   Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!   Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! - Stereo Mix   You Run Away   You Will Be Waiting

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