At The Farms

Taken from "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" 1997

"Well the simpleton at arms
Is protecting the village's prettiest girls
But now they're running far away
Because the washing isn't done
And they lived a life of grounding
In a closet at the foundation
And now they aren't available
To the simpleton at arms
And returning thus to the simple life
(At the farms)"

I love it when Robert Pollard plays a melancholic song and this is one, and in the same mould as "Dayton, Ohio-19 Something And 5" and just feels like a hark back to childhood and the simple life with a very McCartneyesque vocal. Tonics does have some shingin gems on it doesnt it?