Back to School - DEMO
Back to school
it didn’t take too long for me to realize i was broke
i couldn’t let my life become the punchline of a joke
i thought i’d hit the bigtime with my bachelor’s degree
instead i have to think of what the hell that i can be
i tried to be in business but they didn’t like my clothes
i tried to be a model but they didn’t like my nose
i tried to be a teacher but they paid me fifty cents
i nearly started stripping just to cover all the rent
and i am much too young to sign myself away to
a job that makes me play it by the rules
so pack the car with beer and take me back to campus
‘cause all the other choices seem so cruel
maybe i should go
for the life i know
maybe i should go
back to school.
oh, i could be a doctor, lawyer, or an mba
as long as i’m a student it won’t matter much to me
putting off the real world for as long as i’m allowed
and when i’m done i’ll have enough to make my parents proud
and i am much too young to sign myself away to
a job that makes me play it by the rules
so pack the car with beer and take me back to campus
‘cause all the other choices seem so cruel
maybe i should go
for the life i know
maybe i should go
back to school.
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Living in the Moment
and there you were
waiting in the line inside the record store
you hadn’t changed at all
still the sense of sadness in your hiding smile
the last time we
had seen each other we were tearing at the seams
and said goodbye without
knowing what those words could ever really mean
and in a breath it seems the pieces fit again
just like a dream from so many nights since we had come apart
as of right now
i’m living in the moment
living every moment
with you inside my mind
i won’t take
another day for granted
wishing for a moment
from a different time.
so i decide
to ask you if you want to see a matinee
and you say yes, why not
the movies always were our favorite place to be
and so it goes
and this time i'll remember what it feels like
when the bed goes cold
you only see what’s missing when it’s gone away
it’s not too often you can get a second try
and when it showers i will think of how much harder it can fall
as of right now
i’m living in the moment
living every moment
with you inside my mind
i won’t take
another day for granted
wishing for a moment
from a different time.
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Let it Slide
i don’t feel like moving anymore
i’m not that sure if i ever did before
i’m stuck between two corners of my life
and gliding along the edge of a knife
there are no doors that open up to me
and i’m not sure there’s ever going to be
and there’s nobody calling on the phone
i’m getting used to going it alone
so i let it slide
it’s 7:30 and i’m staying home tonight
i like the world much better here on the inside
and no one’s gonna notice that i’m gone
i’m gone, i’m gone…
draw the blinds ‘cause nobody’s looking out
i’m feeling old, there isn’t any doubt
my talents lie in going to bed
there’s nothing much i’d rather do instead
i wake up early to order dinner in
it’s just like every other night has been
and i don’t have anywhere i need to be
and something’s on i really need to see
so i let it slide
it’s 7:30 and i’m staying home tonight
i like the world much better here on the inside
and no one’s gonna notice that i’m gone
i'm gone, i’m gone…
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Lesser Expectations
when i was just a boy i used to see myself as shooting for the sky
with every hope within my reach, i never questioned why
so many people never get that far and have to settle for
a way of getting by
i’ve traded in my dorm room for a gopher job to get me off the ground
i’m hardly getting famous but it’s all that i have found
and i am back at home and i am wishing for a way
to get myself out of this town
happy hours and online dating
student loans and credit ratings
waiting for the dust to settle in
holidays and flower gardens
making deals and finding bargains
letting go of things that might have been
today is a day
of lesser expectations
today is the day a dream is just a dream
and today is the day that I became the man that I’m supposed to be.
people always ask me, “son, what do you plan on doing with your life?”
“what business do you work and are you looking for a wife?”
“you know you can’t expect to change the world just by wishing
for your moment to arrive.”
happy hours and online dating
student loans, credit ratings
waiting for the dust to settle in
holidays and flower gardens
making deals, finding bargains
letting go of things that might have been
today is a day
of lesser expectations
today is the day a dream is just a dream
and today is the day that i became the man that i’m supposed to be.
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She Thought Of Me
sometimes in the dark
i see her face
and i wonder what she’s feeling
so far, far away
across the stars
we stare up at the same ceiling
she went out on her own
in a world she’d never known before
she found someone to love
but thought there would be more
that afternoon
she soon would find
that someone else
was on her mind
she thought of me
she thought of me
and that is all that i can hope for
she thought of me
one final time
and that will do.
torn pages of the year
like fallen leaves
since the time we were together
walking in the rain
under the stream
we could stay like that forever
and so we drift apart
and she learns so many other names
we still talk now and then
but things are not the same
but when it comes
time to reveal
the way that she
could always feel
she thought of me
she thought of me
and that is all that i can hope for
she thought of me, one final time
and that will do.
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