I am testing my hand I am drowning the promised land I was not born of this plan I was not born of this chant I am a second chance You can call me a new man a new man I am a new man I am a new man I am a new man

I was sitting on a bench waiting for you been 42 hours I was circled and I knew you were doing your best to try to rescue me so I just spent my time wrapped up in a cathedral or three singing quietly, lord take me up, up and away do you got a heated holy water jacuzzi? cause I think this city's pretty neat but I could use some walking down some warmer streets oh I wish someone would come and rescue me. there was a little man, picking up trash from the ancient aisles he had a clipboard in his hand he asked me if i was gonna stay a while, stay a while so I said lord, i would stay if I didn't have to go but my skin ain't thick to sit, keep sitting in this window but I only got a couple bills for coffee and I'm still running out of steam no this ain't no christmas ice queen this ain't no dream i say lord if you could please take me away do you got a heated holy water jacuzzi? no i just can't get outta this here heap but I could really use a little company I could really use a little company

(the 'fuck' is silent) I hope you’re thinking of me warm and fondly I hope you’re thinking of me when you — when you — I hope you’re thinking of me warm and fondly I hope you’re thinking of me when you — when you — I will erase your perfect face I’m conditional and I don’t know whose arms are around you now but I wish that they would stay like I would like I would I hope you’re thinking of me warm and fondly I hope you’re thinking of me when you — when you — when you — when you — when you — I hope you don’t need no excuse, no excuse I hope you’re thinking of me warm and fondly I hope you’re thinking of me when you — when you — no no no don’t need an excuse no you don’t need no excuse when you — don’t know whose arms are around you now but I wish that they would stay like i would like i would like i would

I would have gone with you to pick up the trash I would gone with you to to take out the trash woulda gone with you to take out the trash I would have gone with you to take out the trash I would have gone with you I would have gone I would have cleaned up all the parks I would have fed all the homebums I would have taken out the trash I would have fended off the cops I would have done a lotta things but you guessed not I would have done a lotta things but you guessed not I would have done a lotta things I would have fed, I woulda cooked for all the whores I would have run around in the grass with the boys and girls I would have done nothing at all if that’s how it called me to show up that time And that’s why you thought not and I stayed behind but then you found someone you thought that you could dig beside you thought not so I stayed behind oh but you found someone that you thought you could work beside I would have raised your little girl woulda nursed her if I could try she’d never go hungry no not on my watch and she’d never lack to be outside lack to be outside to be outside little girls need sunshine need a mama’s touch need a daddy’s side (4x) so here I sit where we used to look out here I sit just punching the pedal here I sit where we used to look out i’m just pumping the pedal hoping for something good to fall out I wouldn’t have made you settle down I woulda kept it real, kept it on the road I would have been there I would have seen her I would have been on your side I would have figured it out, some way And when you’re out there on the street, somewhere hope you think of me but I know you’re dreaming of a little-er girl I hope you’ll think of me when you’re dreaming of her I know one day you’ll be beside her but still hope you’ll think of me when you’re dreaming next to her.

what i really wanna say is honey we’re gonna be famous honey we’re gonna be famous I’m tired of picking up the fight of picking out a mile penance and I want a big bowl of avocados that’s how we know we’ve made it we’ve made it cause what i really what I really wanna say is honey, honey we’re gonna be famous I admire you so much, might like to be you just kidding you’re the only person that I know that’s as fucked up in the same way as me I might like a different flavor of fucked-up-ery