First Drag Of The Day Lyrics - Singles - Bob Mould

Don't make me do it 

Don't make me sell the things I love 

There's too much happening in this world 

Don't choose the other side right away 

It's been left alone for a while 

If I can get to the words before that first smoke 

Everything seems to come out differently 

Leaving a large hole in my hip 

I've never tried to quit 

Here I go with the first drag of the day 

Sometimes it makes me fall backwards 

On back into bed 

Don't stop me, don't correct me 

Please don't interfere with me 

I'm trying to write as fast as I can 

Yesterday wasn't so bad 

I thought it a little worse than it was 

I don't know why I tried to sabotage my day 

I wanted everything my own way 

I wanted it all my own way, so don't apologize 

I learn to devise these ways of explaining away now 

Happenstance, you don't let me take a stand 

And it sits inside on the great white picket fence deep inside 

Someday that fence is going to fall in your yard 

And I hope you didn't plant anything 

Too precious, too close to the boundary 

It's starting to sound like it's time to sign off 

But for once I feel like something might have happened 

Maybe I can't show this to you 

And maybe I can't show you everything 

Some things have to be precious and pure 

Some things have to stay inside of me 

Or else I've given everything away 

I wanted it all this way 

I learn to devise these ways of explaining away 

So don't blame me, I won't blame you 

It's just the first drag of the day