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I can't buy jack, but I have what I want
I'll never make it if I spend it all up
I can have it all, but not what I want
I can't make it, I just spend it all up
I just get old
and old
and older
I want to get free, but it still catches up

I can't do jack whenever I want
I sleep and I sleep but it's never enough
I can do anything but not when I want
I try to sleep but it's never enough
I just get old
and old
and older
It always runs free and I can't catch up

I've nothing to do, but my time is up
I've made it made not what I want
I've got so much whatever I want
I sleep and I sleep and never get up
I just get old
and old
and older
I've always been free until I caught up

Foolish

It's not fair to lie in a song.
You've been teaching us all so wrong.
What moral values will we share
When desperate love is everywhere?
Why did you sell us this lifestyle?
Always something more to prove.
When is enough enough?
What will be enough for you?

There is something wrong
with the way
you are

There is something wrong
with the way
you are

I thought your words were true
But romance is still brand new
I want it all to work out
but what I thought it is it is not.
Where do I go to find the answers?
The ones I love most seem to know the least truth.
Do you think it will be ok?
I need just to hear it from you.


There is something wrong
with the way
you are

...and I can't find the answer.


There is something wrong
with the way
you are

...and you won't answer prayer

About your teacher

You have come to me and said, "I will pay you after two weeks,"
And I say to you, "If a doctor says he will treat you for two weeks, do you pay him every time or only after two weeks."
You need to pay your teacher. If you do not pay me, I will not teach you.
If you asked at a restaurant, "Can I pay later?"
No, the restaurant would not serve you.

You are talking in my class. If you talk on a phone, can you hear the other person speaking?
You cannot. If you are talking, you cannot listen.
If you do not listen, you will fall behind.
You will disrupt others when you ask them questions because you did not understand the first time.
Because you did not listen.

You have told me that your son is special and I should be more forgiving of him.
Does your son walk on water? Does your son have two brains?
Your son is the same as every other child in the classroom, but you love him more.
Thus we must treat him the same as every other child in the classroom.
If you would like to give him special treatment, please homeschool him.

At 25

Divorce splits
one heart into four shards
Put 'em back together
and they look odd
something not whole
something not quite right
uncomfortable
scrambling for a partner
to deafen the doubting night

Blah blah blah blah blase
You heard life was easy.
They meant the other way.
Blah blah blah blah blase
a little bit of misery
gives you no right to complain.
You were sitting in the bar
getting drunk to forget
But after so many hangovers
you have to accept

Yeah, I fucked around
and I fucking paid for it
Heard of a varicocele?
Get it and wish you hadn't.
Testes torsion in a foreign land
My legs were stone columns
and ladyboy nurses diddle my privates

Blah blah blah blah blase.
A little bit of misery
gives no right to complain
Blah blah blah blah blase
You went from grief to anger
and found only more pain
Why waste all the time
climbing the steps and
just accept?

You have to accept.
This is what is left.
You have to accept.
This is what is left.

I don't think I knew what real love was
or at least I didn't
It was sweet and weird
and hard to believe in.
You know me
then you should know what has past
So I know you will be my first love and my last.