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THE LEDGE Lyrics

Artist: The Replacements
Album: Pleased To Meet Me

All eyes look up to me
High above the filthy streets
Heed no bullhorn when it calls
Watch me fly and die, watch me fall

I'm the boy they can't ignore,
For the first time in my life, I'm sure
All the love sent up high to pledge
Won't reach the ledge

Wind blows cold from the west
I smell coffee, I smell doughnuts for the press (on their breath?)
A girl that I knew once years ago
Is tryin' to be reached on the phone

I'm the boy she can't ignore,
for the first time in my life, I'm sure
All the love sent up high to pledge...

(Repeat)

Priest kneels silent, all is still
Policeman reaches from the sill
Watch him, watch him try his best
There'll be no medal pinned to his chest

I'm the boy they couldn't ignore,
for the first time in my life, I'm sure

(Repeat)

I'm the boy for the last time in my life

All the love that they pledge
For the last time will not reach the ledge

Comments/Interpretations

by nick W on 10/30/2008 12:08pm
i thought it was donuts o'er the grass? don't know can't tell. but i know it's watch him try to try his best. it was a classic westerberg flubbed line.

by superdave on 12/4/2008 7:24am
I thought it was "donut o'er the grass" too...I came here because I never got the "priest kneels silent" line...I've had the damn record for 20+ years! Also, I'm not sure the streets are "filthy" I think they're just streets

by suzz on 12/4/2008 4:48pm
it is 'doughnuts for the press'

by Wardwhet on 12/29/2008 5:30pm
I think that it's "doughnuts for the brass" whick is what the coppers are sometimes called (due to the badges they wears)

by Pat Stanton on 4/10/2009 5:27pm
mean old medal pinned to his chest?

by RuralUproar24 on 10/11/2010 11:25pm
It is indeed "..for the brass"

by nightdawg on 2/21/2011 12:48am
I say it's "for the press"

by nightdawg on 2/21/2011 5:40pm
k after several more listenings i now say it is "a girl that I knew once years ago." and i think it actually may be "for the brass.." touche. bottom line though, great song. want to get a new cd of that album.

by GrandLarsenE on 3/2/2013 6:30pm
...doughnuts for the brass. As in the higher ups on the force.