| Don’t make me do it, don’t make me sell the things I love
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| There’s too much happening in this world
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| Don’t choose the other side right away
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| It’s been left alone for a while
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| If I can get to the words before that first smoke
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| Everything seems to come out differently
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| Leaving a large hole in my hip
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| I’ve never tried to quit
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| Here I go with the first drag of the day
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| Sometimes it makes me fall backwards on back into bed
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| Don’t stop me, don’t correct me
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| Please don’t interfere with me
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| I’m trying to write as fast as I can
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| Yesterday wasn’t so bad
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| I thought it a little worse than it was
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| I don’t know why I tried to sabotage my day
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| I wanted everything my own way
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| I wanted it all my own way, so don’t apologize
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| I learn to devise these ways of explaining away
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| Happenstance, you don’t let me take a stand
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| And it sits inside on the great white picket fence deep inside
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| Someday that fence is going to fall in your yard
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| And I hope you didn’t plant anything too precious too close to the boundary
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| It’s starting to sound like it’s time to sign off
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| But for once, I feel like something might have happened
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| Maybe I can’t show this to you
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| Maybe I can’t show you everything
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| Some things have to be precious and pure
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| Some things have to stay inside of me
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| Or else I’ve given everything away
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| I wanted it all this way
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| I learn to devise these ways of explaining away
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| So don’t blame me, I won’t blame you
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| It’s just the first drag of the day |