ENG 580: Literary PoMo I'm gonna make you an offer you can't understand...

Too weird not to post...

A gentleman by the name of Jerry Joseph fronts a band called the Jackmormons, and he wrote a song obviously influenced by Mr. McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian. The lyrics follow:

Bears that Dance and Bears that Don't

Lyrics by Jerry Joseph

Here at the bar he's sitting alone

Making a list of why he's cool

But nobody asks so he sticks to his own

Untill he falls right off his stool

He's never been confidant with strangers

I doubt he'll find his courage now

Well maybe he will and maybe he won't

There's bears that dance and bears that don't


Here on the beach she sits by herself

Wishing that you were with her now

But she's learned to run and stay out of reach

Hoping that make it up somehow

You never been honest with each other

I doubt you'll find your courage now

Well maybe you will and maybe you won't

There's bears that dance and bears that don't


All your life

You been riding

Along your blood meridian

And like the judge

And the ladies dancing

We devour up our friends


We travel the world keep to our own

everyone stares into their drinks

And beautiful girls and men on their own

and nobodys saying what they think

I've never been brave enough to ask them

I doubt I'll find my courage now

Maybe I will and maybe I won't

There's bears that dance and bears that don't

I've never been brave enough to ask you

I doubt I'll find my courage now

Maybe I will and maybe I won't

Maybe you will and maybe you won't

Maybe we will and maybe we won't

There's bears that dance and bears that don't