1. |
Sucks to Be Me
02:31
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You say you’re ten minutes away
I start to rearrange the room
Elevate your pedestal so high
So I can never reach you
So I can always wonder why
I’m into whatever you’re into
That voice that tells me not to try
Well somebody killed him
Before I even learned to drive
There’s a house I filled with grandeur
Someone ripped off the whole place
Emergency dispatcher said it sucks to be me
I’m in a room that’s full of cancer
And people in their seventies
Thinking about my married friends
It sucks to be me
You’re in the shine of the present
I can’t think of what to do with you
Draw on the past like I’m bored in class
I sat through the lecture
But I don’t think I’m gonna pass
I’m into whatever
That voice that tells me not to run
Well somebody killed him
Before I even owned a gun
I’m into whatever you’re into
Sucks to be me
There’s a house I filled with grandeur
Someone ripped off the whole place
Emergency dispatcher said it sucks to be me
I’m in a room that’s full of cancer
And people in their seventies
Thinking about my married friends
It sucks to be me
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2. |
Unplug
02:59
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Exhaustion from a stock suggestion
Meanwhile they’re flying off the shelf
I’ve only got one mind with one eye
Interference can’t be helped
I woke up zoomed in on the problem
As bill collectors slithered past
Retreated for a birds eye view
Found aspirations that won’t last
My past a stove that I left running
When I took a train downtown
Realized it under the East River
Power surge, service down
The man beside me was a Buddhist
He said “don’t feed the mind’s cabal”
But I’m a child of computers
Let me unplug it from the wall
Exhaustion from a stock suggestion
To sign a non aggression pact
I cut a deal with my creator
He raised the vig and i got jack
He said he’s running deals all season
And come back when I’m in a bind
But I’ll be careful what I tell him
Cuz he won’t let me change my mind
My past a stove that I left running
When I took a train downtown
Realized it under the East River
Power surge, service down
The man beside me was a Buddhist
He said “don’t feed the mind’s cabal”
But I’m a child of computers
Let me unplug it from the wall
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3. |
Hall Pass
02:59
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I took 20 from the stockpile
So I could drive to the apostles
Can’t compete with dying mothers
Renounced my faith inside a foxhole
The man who’s laughing at the meeting
Is doing 90 on the freeway
Flashing switchblade at the driver
Holding hands with the survivors
And really, all the while
As history’s been made
I’ve just been myself
And everything’s the same
The student was ready
But the teacher was detained
Set the bail at 50,000
Held uptown to be arraigned
And really, all the while
As history’s been made
I’ve just been myself
And everything’s the same
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4. |
Roll Back Down
02:42
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Alive for fleeting, subtle thrill
Inhale the air atop the hill
Before my rock rolls back down to shadows
An aced audition for a play
That spans a birth til Judgement Day
We watch the role dissolve to shadows
I took a long walk through a short trap door
I ventured out knowing that I would be washed to the shore
I took a long walk through a short trap door
A day's work gone to cinders, who could ever want more?
Alive for fleeting, subtle thrill
Inhale the air atop the hill
Before my rock rolls back down to shadows
I long for hands to lift the veil
And make the promise bound to fail
To God, who’s long been in the shadows
For the first time, again and again
For the first time, again and again
I took a long walk through a short trap door
I ventured out knowing that I would be washed to the shore
I took a long walk through a short trap door
A day's work gone to cinders, who could ever want more?
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5. |
Somebody Particular
03:22
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Have you ever walked into a place
Where it seems perfectly regular
But in your head you know
You’re looking for someone in particular
Well I did that tonight
And knew they probably wouldn’t be there
And even if they were
I probably wouldn’t be prepared
To have a conversation
But if somehow I was
There probably would be others
I’d be inclined to buzz
Into their life like it’s a sitcom
Without knocking on the door
And then I'd start to hang my clothes
That used to just stay on the floor
And at this point
Well, almost certainly
I’d be feeling alien
From who I’m supposed to be
The man who walked into a place
People walk into all the time
Who fully knew that he had somebody
Particular in mind
And just like a clock right twice a day
I’d come up with a story
And find my way back out
Without using the word “boring”
And maybe I'd be feeling bad
Like any decent Catholic
I’d try to stanch the wound
Expecting nothing too dramatic
And then the conversation
Takes a surprising turn
My steering might go out
My cheeks would start to burn
Until I'm left to finally see
The error of my ways
I’ll make full transformation
In the next couple days
But who’s got time
For all that drudgery
And life is long
Imagine I could be
The man who walked into a place
People walk into all the time
Who fully knew that he had somebody
Particular in mind
The man who walked into a place
People walk into all the time
Who fully knew that he had somebody
Particular in mind
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