Lyrics I Don't Want To Have A Nice Day - Greg Brown

I Don't Want To Have A Nice Day

I been up, honey, all night long
It felt right, now it feel wrong
I just wanna feed my misery
The _Boston Globe_ and some black coffee
I don’t wanna have a nice day
And I wish that you wouldn’t say
That to me, not that-a-way
I don’t wanna have a nice day
I think that somebody unscrewed my head
I know I look just like an unmade bed
But y’know when I feel this way
What it is is a-what I say.
And
I can remember a little restaurant, you know
Somewhere down around Chicago
She threw that Whopper right in my face
And then she said, «Have a nice day.»
I said
What d’ya wanna do then?
Umh!
I wanna weep;
I wanna sleep
I wanna get by cheap
I wanna creep into the deep
I wanna fall down in a heap
I’m gonna do it right on your floor
If you say that to me just once more
You’ll have to roll me right out the door
Yeah, and give me the ol' what for
I can remember what the people did
Way back when I was a little kid
They didn’t ask you to be always high
They just said, «thank you» and «goodbye.»
And
No no no no no nonononono…
Why don’t you have one?
Take two, they’re small
Da da da da da dadadadadada…
Why don’t you have a day like a painting of a kid with big eyes?
Why don’t you have a day like a painting of a puppy with a ribbon 'round
Its neck
Sun goin down over the sea?
Why don’t you have a day like a painting of a kid with big eyes
Holdin' a puppy with a ribbon 'round it’s neck'
Standin' down by the ocean with the sun…
Nonononono, I don’t wanna… nonononono, I don’t wanna… nononnonono, I
Don’t wanna
Nononononononono!