| I’ve got skills, they don’t know where to use me
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| I’m like the best-dressed dude at the nude beach
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| Nice to meet you
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| I am more the quiet type
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| I tend to be a shyer guy
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| As safe as knee and elbow pads
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| In cul-de-sacs with traffic lights
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| I spend most of my time alone
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| It’s not all that bad, you know
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| I lost some weight from anxious pacing talking on the telephone
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| If I look cool, I’m foolin' you
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| At any point you can assume
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| My mind’s computing every path that screws up what I want to do
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| Lock the door
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| Seal it, too
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| Dancing in the panic room!
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| I made a promise
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| Now I feel nauseous
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| As if I chugged a cup of stuff you clean your countertops with
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| But no Lysol will solve this
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| So I am out of options
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| It’s past my bedtime and I’m honestly exhausted
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| And I just want something more than nostalgia
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| Received like a hot dog down at the dog park
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| Be your best friend
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| The things I that I can’t shoulder well
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| I pass on to my older self
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| And hope I learn to cope so I don’t end up roped or overwhelmed
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| ‘Cause vocally, I’m not the best
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| I’m openly admitting that
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| But if you cared I doubt you would have made it past McCracken, yeah
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| If I look brave, I’m secretly
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| Pretending I’m a different me
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| The one onstage who plays and sings and claps and shouts and basically
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| Behind the door
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| Just out of view
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| Dancing in the panic room
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| I made a promise
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| Now I feel nauseous
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| As if I chugged a cup of stuff you clean your countertops with
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| But no Lysol will solve this
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| So I am out of options
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| It’s past my bedtime and I’m honestly exhausted
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| But if you wanted
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey!
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| Though wouldn’t it be the best if all the answers to our questions
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| Came as sheepish realizations, obvious in retrospective
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| Like the answer for anxiety that’s crept into your head
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| Is as simple as your printer: you forgot to plug it in
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| Instead of playing Twister with my lyrics ‘cause I can
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| And filling every syllable with lots of bull, should I instead
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| Give you the simple sing-along you’re all hoping will come next
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| Or do I load this mother up and do-dah-do what I do best?
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| So here’s my promise
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| Don’t aim for flawless
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| ‘Cause some of your best art is made with chalk on your sidewalk, it’s
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| Gone when you wash it off, it’s
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| Not made for fame or profits
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| It’s lookin' back and givin' all you got to top it
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| But if you want it
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey!
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| He-he-hey! |