Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to Be Loved)

歌詞

Well the animals laugh From the dark of the wilderness A baby cries hard In an apartment complex As I pass in a car Buried under the influence The cities driving me out of my mind I've seen a child he's caught In the sad trap of gravity He falls from the lowest Branch of the apple tree And lands in the grass And weeps for his dignity Next time he will not aim so high Yeah, next time neither will I Now, a mother takes loans out Sends her kids off to colleges Her family's reduced To names on a shopping list While a coroner kneels Beneath the great wooden crucifix He knows there's worse things than being Alone. And so I've learned to retreat At the first sign of danger I mean, why wait around if It's just to surrender And ambition I've found Can lead only to failure I do not read the reviews No I am not singing for you (Woo) Well I stood droppin' a coin Into the pit of a well And I would throw my whole billfold If I thought it would help With all these wishes I make I should buy something real At least a telephone Call home Well my teachers they built This retaining wall of memory All those multiple choices I answered so quickly And got my grades back And forgot just as easily But at least I got an A And so I don't have them to blame Well I should stop pointing fingers Reserve my judgment Of all those public action figures And cowboy presidents So loud behind the bull-horns So proud they can't admit When they've made a mistake While poison ink spews From a speech writers pen He knows he don't have to say it So it don't bother him Honesty accuracy It's just popular opinion And the approval ratings high And so someone's gonna die Well ABC NBC CBS bullshit They give us fact or fiction I guess an even split And each new act of war's tonight's entertainment We're still the pawns in their game As they take eye for an eye Until no one can see We must stumble blindly forward Repeating history Well I guess we all fit into that slogan On your fast food marquee Red blooded white skinned and oh the blues Oh and the blues I got the blues that's me Well I awoke in relief My sheets and tubes were all tangled Weak from whiskey and pills In a Chicago hospital And my father was there In a chair by the window Starin' so far away I tried talking just whispered So sorry so selfish He stopped me and said Child, I love you regardless There nothing you could do That would ever change this I'm not angry, it happens But you just can't do it again And so now I try to keep up I been exchanging my currency While a million objects Pass though my periphery Now I'm rubbin' my eyes 'Cause they're starting to bother me I been staring too long at the screen But where was it when I first heard That sweet sound of humility It came to my ears in the Goddamned loveliest melody How grateful I was then To be part of the mystery To love and to be loved Lets just hope that is enough