Andy Kaughman Lyrics - Singles - Sage Francis

AUTHOR: Sage Francis 

Now I know it ain't right, but I decided I hadta' / 

Us poets paint life, but don't get recognized till afta' / 

So I faked my own death just to see what would happen / 

As I taje shallow breaths and wait for people's reaction / 

It was funny at first, but I had to hold my laughter...wait / 

Before long I was on display at an open casket wake / 

And I'm the main attraction who draws a crowd. A freak show of sorts / 

Good thing my skin is pale enough to pass as a decomposing corpse / 

Frozen in my thoughts, laying stiff...playing with 

/ People's emotions and awaiting a kiss from praying lips that I hate but miss. 

She didn't show...although she sent a card with flowers / 

How considerate. That little bitch would make me sit in my car for hours / 

Heartless powers start to devour my patience...it gets me violent / 

I'm ready to fly shit and end everything like "I QUIT!" 

Then again I sit deathly quiet...biting my tongue / 

Just excited that some kids...who were invited to come did / 

I'm the center of attention...the talk of the town / 

It ain;t all that profound, but on this special day of mine I'm the one the universe revolves around / 

It's like a birthday...kind of. 

I also found that it's the worst way to find love. 

White doves battle black crows in one of the back rows / 

And everybody my ass knows back home is sporting black clothes / 

Looking glum as usual...it's all too familliar / 

I put the fun back into funeral. My morbid humor'll kill ya' / 

For all that it's worth...the people who I thought were jerks / 

Were putting on the water works and it sorta hurts / 

My momma stroked my hair with so much care but hardly spoke / 

Now my heart is broke, and yeah...I should've let her in on the joke / 

But I'm honestly choked up, and I'm stuck holding back my tears / 

As I absorb the atmosphere, "I wanna turn back I'm scared!" 

Then a hand touches my shoulder to calm my nerves / 

And something odd occurs because I heard my father's words / 

So I got disturbed...as he expressed what he's never said / 

What bothered me the most is that I remembered...he's dead / 

I manifested destiny. The best and worst of worlds has come true / 

As I'm buried alive, in the back of my mind echoes his words: 

"I love you."