Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I want it to, and I get real
frustrated.
I try hard to do it, and I take my time, but it just doesn't work out the way I want it
to, it's like I concentrate on real hard, but it just doesn't work out, and everything
I do and everything I try, it never turns out, it's like I need time to figure these
things out, and there's always someone there going, hey Mike, you know, we've been noticing
you've been having a lot of problems lately, you know, maybe get away, and like, maybe you
should talk about it, you'll feel a lot better, and I go, no, it's okay, you know, I'll figure
it out, you see me along, I'll figure it out, you know, I'm just working on myself, and
they go, well, you know, if you want to talk about it, I'll be here, you know, and you'll
probably feel a lot better if you talk about it.
Why don't you talk about it?
I go, no, I don't want to, I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself, and they just keep bugging
me, they just keep bugging me, and it's filled to the brim.
It's got to be, it's still going to, because I'm famous, but it's not, you won't have
anything, I'm famous, you'll just get away.
I'm not crazy, here's the design, you're the one that's crazy, here's the design, you're
driving me crazy, here's the design.
They take me in, and then soon they'll say it wasn't the only suit, you're going to get
beaten for messing up, you can't give up, you've got to be myself.
I was in my room, and I was just like staring at the wall, thinking about everything, and
then, yeah, I was thinking about nothing, and then my mom came in, and I didn't even
know she was there, and she called my name, and I didn't hear her, and then she started
screaming, Mike, Mike, and I go, what, what's the matter, what's the matter with you?
She goes, don't tell me that, you're on drugs.
I go, no, mom, I'm not on drugs, I'm okay, I'm just thinking, you know, why don't you
give me a Pepsi?
She goes, no, you're on drugs.
I go, mom, I'm okay, I'm just thinking.
She goes, no, you're not thinking, you're on drugs, none of those people don't act you
that way.
I go, mom, just give me a Pepsi, please, all I want is a Pepsi, and shit won't get into
me, all I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and shit won't get into me, just a Pepsi.
I'm not taking it, it's the decision.
You don't wanna take it, it's the decision.
You wanna be crazy, it's the decision.
I'm sitting in my room, my mom and my dad came in.
They both here, they sat down.
We go, Mike, we're bye.
They pulled up to here and they sat down.
We go, Mike, we need to talk to you.
I go, okay, what's the matter?
We go, me and your mom, we've noticed lately
you've been having a lot of problems
and you've been going off for no reason
and we're afraid you're going to hurt somebody
and we're afraid you're going to hurt yourself.
So we decided that it would be in your best interest
if we put you somewhere where you can get the help that you need.
And I go, wait, what are you talking about?
We decided my best interest.
How do you know what my best interest is?
How can you say what my best interest is?
What are you trying to say?
I'm crazy.
When I went to your school,
I went to your churches,
I went to your institutional learning facilities.
So how can you say I'm crazy?
I said you're going to pick my face,
you're going to pick my number,
you're going to pick my head, you're going to leave,
I'll be dead.
I'm not crazy.
You're the one that's crazy.
You've got to be crazy.
They stick me in and they're good,
but they wasn't the only person giving me the fuck
because I'm going to take the fucking enemy myself.
It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway.
Here we are, we all live here,
we're all in the house,
till it all burns down,
we're sitting down on chairs on the floor,
in a room in the house,
we're all in the house,
it's all going to burn,
burn, burn, burn,
we're in one room,
and we're all going to jive,
jive, jive,
here we are,
in a big red car,
on a long straight road,
we're all in the car,
in the land of the lost,
so very fast,
two in the backseat,
we're all in a Pontiac,
in overdrive,
saying don't jive,
we're all going to jive,
jive, jive, jive,
jive, jive,
jive.
Here we are,
in a big red car,
on a long straight road,
we're all in the car,
in the land of the lost,
so very fast,
two in the backseat,
we're all in a Pontiac,
in overdrive,
saying don't jive,
we're all going to jive,
jive, jive,
jive, jive.
jive, jive, jive, jive, jive.
jive, jive, jive, jive, jive, jive.
Living our lives,
just before the hour,
a few moments won't make any difference,
not to me,
anyway.
jive, jive, jive, jive, jive, jive, jive, jive, jive.
I'm the only one to go in tomorrow,
the man will tell me I've been leaving early yesterday,
yesterday.
And there's voices inside me,
they're screaming, they're telling me
that's the way we all go.
There's thousands of people
just like me all over,
that's the way we all go.
What can I do when everyone's been so helpful?
What can I have to go to say I'm divine too?
But I've lost not the words of the kindness,
the sympathy,
that's the way we all go.
And if you're bigger, you fall a bit harder,
but that's the way we all go.
There's a pain in my side,
it's a lesson I learned from a while ago.
I'll be screaming inside,
I'll be finding my now pretty one show.
There's a lock at my door,
I've faltered from it,
I still don't know.
And the people that I've shared into my mind,
they still won't go.
Why should I think I've got the whole factory
that's the way we all go?
They've been pushing to Tokyo, New York and Moscow,
and that's the way we all go.
They're all crying and arguing down the telephone,
but that's the way we all go.
They've been standing here with my whole life
just there thinking that's the way we all go.
That's the way we all go.
Love me, baby.
This ain't board and roll, this is sexist cry.
It's called life, girl, it's not a lie,
you'd better believe it, baby.
I ran at night, broke on set,
my toes cold like gold,
I know I'm red as paper,
so give me hell,
why not instead to warm me up?
Ooh, she loves it, she's dead.
She looks so fine,
oh, she's fine, baby, she's got my eyes.
Ooh, I can follow my head,
he's so long, hands up to brother,
when honey's gone,
we're like it's sent the whole world,
I hope the hell I don't get caught.
She looks so fine,
oh, she's fine, baby, she's got my eyes.
Let's do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I promise you, I promise you.
You'd better believe it, you know.
I ran at night, broke on set,
my toes cold like gold,
I know I'm red as paper,
so give me hell,
why not instead to warm me up?
Ooh, I can follow my head,
oh, she's dead.
She looks so fine,
oh, she's fine, baby, she's got my eyes.
She knows how to use it.
Ooh, I can follow my head,
oh, she's dead.
Ooh, I can follow my head,
oh, she's dead.
This poem is dedicated
to all those good people
who just let life pass them by
and told, every time I eat vegetables,
it makes me think of you.
No agony, no ecstasy,
no pleasure and no pain,
so exquisitely uninteresting,
you drive your life insane.
The TV is your oracle,
the newspaper's your guide,
and your tiny little vehicle
is your passion and your pride.
You've done the same things every day
for nigh on 40 years,
and in your ludicrous routines,
you hide your worthless fears.
On the blandest boat in Borden,
you are captain of the crew,
and every time I eat vegetables,
it makes me think of you.
You died the day that you were born,
and now you sit and rot,
a three-piece suited dinosaur
in the pond that time forgot.
Your image is respectable,
there's nothing underneath,
and the whole thing is as surely false
as Esther Ransom's teeth.
Your views are carbon copies
of the rubbish that you read,
and you swallow every morsel
Rupert Murdoch seeks to feed.
You go to bed at ten,
because you've nothing else to do,
and every time I eat vegetables,
it makes me think of you.
And now a few choice words,
without the slightest hint of malice,
rather than spend the day with you,
I'll play for Crystal Palace.
I really love your company when you are far away,
and I'll go there tomorrow
if you're going there today.
If you love the establishment as much as you declare,
you're a cruise missile base,
and establish yourself there.
You're the middle-aged equivalent of a kid
who's sniffing glue,
and every time I eat vegetables,
it makes me think of you.
You're a cabbage in a pickle,
and your brain has sprung a leak,
so let us keep our distance,
because I vomit when you speak.
I'll always do a runner,
so I'm going where you've been,
because to see you chills my marrow
and turns my tomatoes green.
You're an 18-carat cretin
with a dandelion wine,
so stick to your herbaceous border,
and I'll stick to mine,
and although this verse is corny,
it's amazing,
but it's true,
that every time I eat vegetables,
it makes me think of you.
There's sumptuous civilisation,
and a promise unfulfilled,
and there's sumptuous extermination,
when it's someone else who gets killed.
A gesture of insanity,
and a world left to the crabs.
Five thousand years of history,
and now they're up in rags,
so send that fucking cowboy
riding home into a storm.
And send within the culture
of a dollar and a gun,
then we'll have fun,
down on district one.
Down on district one.
We come here not to praise ignorance,
but to bury it.
This is no respect.
Sexual double standards.
They make me sick,
they devoid of rules.
We are second class,
if you were born a woman.
But it's so different
if you were a male.
No man is a whore,
even if he's a mime.
No man is a slut,
he feels no shame.
No man is a swag,
he's one of the lads.
No man is a cow,
and she knows how
to love to be sober.
And you show no respect,
no respect,
which makes me feel
you're afraid
of the opposite sex.
No respect, no respect,
you're afraid
of the opposite sex.
No respect, no respect,
how many times
have we spat in their eyes.
Well I'm sorry
if I'm boring you,
but you're a new window
with really no point of view.
What we see here
is a wonky thinking woman.
Another place of
the bastard race.
No man is a whore,
even if he's a mime.
No man is a slut,
he feels no shame.
No man is a swag,
he's one of the lads.
No man is a cow,
and she knows how
to love to be sober.
And you show no respect,
no respect,
which makes me feel
you're afraid
of the opposite sex.
No respect, no respect,
you're afraid
of the opposite sex.
No respect, no respect,
how many times have we
spat in their eyes.
Too many times.
Ah!
Take a dream,
take a dream,
take a dream.
Oh, don't want your
soul to be
feeling so slow.
You can't swim as fast as me, but I'm playing in the decent sea.
As the rock hits where they've been, when obsession brings them in fear,
Cabaret in hardcore beer, Cabaret in hardcore beer, Bossing in Big Drunk, Big Drunk, Big Drunk.
You are the new heavy metal fans. Congratulations, folks.
While you fly, I sweat anchor, I sweat anchor, I sweat anchor, I sweat anchor, I sweat anchor.
No one keeps trying, no one.
She's so close to me, she's so close to me, yeah, yeah now, yeah, yeah now.
She's so close to me.
Only for a couple of siree, all to the open score. Oh, say does that starboard ship's
Oh, say does that starboard ship's measure our yankers on call.
To the one who does, we are prepared to be the right men for.
How can we stop it? What's in the pocket? No one cares at all.
Pouring gold on a sweaty foot back, I am Captain Star, I am Captain Star.
I am Captain Star, Captain Star.
To the one who does, we are prepared to be the right men for.
Well, who's that knocking, knocking on my front door?
If you don't stop now, I won't let you in no more.
I tried telling you, you just don't understand.
Go and tell your mama to get yourself another man.
You wake me up in the morning when I'm fast asleep.
In the evening, the sun goes down, you roll over my two feet.
I may look a fool, you just don't understand, but that's okay.
Go on, baby, baby, let me see you run your way.
You make me look a fool every time you take me out.
You get me hooked on Saturday night.
Baby, baby, can't you see I'm in misery?
I told you once before, I wish you'd just go and ignore.
Stay out of sight and stop knocking on my door.
Baby, baby, I'm on my last two feet.
You wake me up in the morning, baby, when I'm fast asleep.
In the evening, the sun goes down, you roll over my two feet.
I may look a fool, you just don't understand, but that's okay.
Go on, baby, baby, let me see you run your way.
Hey, Johnny, have you seen that thriller thing that Michael Jackson did?
What? Yeah, I think so, yeah, like Moe did with the story before the shot.
Okay, what have you to say?
Hey, Johnny, have you seen that thriller thing that Michael Jackson did?
What? Yeah, I think so.
Hey, Johnny, have you seen that thriller thing that Michael Jackson did?
What? Yeah, I think so.
What have you seen that thriller thing that Michael Jackson did?
What? Yeah, I think so.
I know it's near the knuckle, but I can tell when I see a real man.
When it comes to reality, I've only just begun.
You've got a grasp of the real situation.
I just blunder about in a close approximation.
You know a lot of people, you're always drinking with your friends, aren't you?
You sing so sweetly.
Don't forget about the ones who went too far.
Don't forget about them.