[00:25.27]A city full of people and my favorite is that waitress
[00:27.95]And she treats me like some kind of common vagrant.
[00:30.14]I see her every day
[00:31.20]But there's nothing to say
[00:32.58]Unless I decide to step inside of that cafe
[00:34.64]
[00:35.27]I only get to sit if I buy something to eat
[00:37.89]Otherwise its best to keep my feet moving down that street.
[00:41.21]And god damn, she's a hard bitch
[00:42.89]She talks at like I'm the bad dog that got into the garbage
[00:46.33]Yeah I know that the toilet is for customers
[00:48.58]You ain't gotta tangle up the strings that make this puppet work
[00:51.77]It doesn't have to be a game of paddy-cake
[00:53.95]But it ain't like you don't know I sleep in that alleyway.
[00:56.83]And by the way, I can see it in your eyes
[00:59.27]You're angry with your life, not a stranger to the fight
[01:02.14]I bet you hate every man that you date
[01:05.02]And you're probably addicted to all types of escape.
[01:07.76]You take it out on me
[01:08.83]That you're all alone
[01:09.95]When you know you got your own closet full of hollow bones
[01:12.95]Watch the tone when you speak to old folks
[01:15.39]I'm grown, just trying to get out of this Minnesota cold.
[01:18.77]"Look lady, please
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[01:20.65]I'm homeless, I'm crazy
[01:21.70]I'm so hopeless I'm suicidal daily.
[01:23.58]If you and I can't coexist let's fake it
[01:25.95]Cause I ain't got the energy it takes for this relationship."
[01:29.52]I'm waiting for a city bus to flatten me
[01:31.45]And transport me to the ever after happily.
[01:33.58]
[01:34.33]Maybe reincarnate, and with luck,
[01:36.83]come back to Earth as a cockroach in your tip cup,
[01:39.96]Huh.
[01:40.71]She says she's had it up to here
[01:42.65]She's gonna call authorities if I don't dissapear.
[01:45.35]I love her threats
[01:46.15]It rejuvinates my breath
[01:47.59]I give her stress for the reaction that it gets.
[01:50.65]I got a pocket full of panhandled money
[01:52.65]On a cup of bad coffee and a stale honey bun.
[01:55.03]
[01:55.53]In front of everyone she calls me bum
[01:57.91]But she notices my absence on those afternoons I don't come.
[02:00.80]
[02:01.49]So here I am, thorn in her hip
[02:03.30]Corner table all morning with some corn chips.
[02:05.12]
[02:06.12]Ignoring the insults and evil eyes
[02:08.94]I feed off em, I wonder when she'll realize.
[02:10.73]
[02:12.22]She's the only reason I visit
[02:14.29]The only woman in my world that acknowledges my existence.
[02:16.48]
[02:17.17]And if my ship ever comes I'll miss it
[02:19.41]Because I'm getting old and I ain't got much left to give it.
[02:22.10]
[02:22.60]So there it is, and I have to live with it
[02:25.60]I had the chance to make a difference but I didn't.
[02:27.66]In a cafe bathroom drinking free tap water
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[02:30.42]Thinking damn I should have been a better father to my daughter.