My ship up here is sinkin'

but this is what I am

and I'd tell you what I'm thinkin'

if I thought you'd give a damn

and I don't know a single one of you

but you feel like a winter's rain

tell me would listen to the words I speak

if I knew you all by name

it's niether here nor there

cause I still wake up in my hotel room

with this smokey barroom in my clothes and hair

every night is different

every night's the same

ain't if funny how each of us

has his own way to kill the pain

makes me think of my friend Jimmy

who never could behave

he bought a Gator skateboard

with the money that he saved

he rode that 4 wheeled surfin' board around

till he was old enough to shave

then it was replaced by a '69 LaSabre

he'd putter off to schol

as fast as that thing would get

and all the kids would say

here comes Jimmy in that beat up piece of shit

he used to take up 2 whole spaces

in the senior parking lot

yea now Jimmy's doin' seven years

for stickin' up a subway sandwich shop

so crawl beneath your words

say what's on your mind

tell it like it is

don't get stuck behind

cause its the truth you know,

that gets you by

it's not who or what you know,

it's why

so straddle that old fencepost

and fade it down to nothing

and you'll see

you might see

that my ship up here is sinkin'

but this is what I am

and I'd tell you waht I'm thinkin'

if I thought you gave a damn

so take this in or don't

I don't really care

you will or you won't

2 choices in the air