a simple lifetime i spend all my time planning for 
something instead of doing and the faces pass me by
as if they're saying "a year hasn't done that much for 
you" tell me when i can stop impressing you. pretty girl 
you're pretty entertaining but you've got nothing on 
california in this big gray sky, burning out my eyes, 
take your medicine, but you know it might not work, don't 
take too much, you know, you just might make it worse, 
cuz i know, i was half way home before i realized the 
joke was on me all along and its becoming laughable well 
i don't have to play your song, hey man you pay too much 
if you paid at all, how many miles have we gone? it can't 
be all that hard if you can sum it up in a postcard 
"sincerely yours" look for comfort in the stars and the 
sound of your guitar and wonder what its done to you, and 
visualize what you'll never do, never do, well i was half 
way home before i realized the joke was on me all along 
and its becoming laughable, well i don't have to play 
your song, hey man, you pay too much if you paid at all, 
i can't decide if i hate it all yet