Sunday Music: Decent Gentlemen, Try And Understand (“Reeko” By NOFX)

July 5th. The parties are over, there’s a mess in the house and a bigger one in the backyard. I woke up thinking of “Reeko” by NOFX this morning. Sooner or later, the fun ends and you have to start cleaning up. That doesn’t just go for the rager that trashed your house. In case the metaphor might escape us, NOFX points the back half of the song at the mid-90’s political situation. I guess some topics are just evergreen. As you walk around picking up, put this song on. If anyone is supposed to be helping you and isn’t, just say, “Decent gentlemen, try and understand.”

Reeko, try to understand, it really is that badIt won’t just go away, the party’s overIt’s past two o’clock, so it’s about time weStopped, ’cause ISee the keg has been sucked dryCisco emptied into the aquariumWhere the fish all seem to floatThe ex lax lines the dog bowlThe toilet’s overflowed, we’ve had our fun soSo there’s nothing leftWe got no place left to go

Mister President please understand, it really is that badIt won’t just go away, it’s just beginningThe ballots have been cast, we make like seaward ratsLeave this sinking ship, leave and not look backThe things we never tried to disallowHave come back to haunt us nowWith apple pie and ChevroletWe’ve come to see the end, we all made this bedNow we got nowhere to layDecent gentlemenTry and understand