The Unrecovered One Lyrics - The Roches

Here I am I'm the unrecovered one 

You can talk to me if you want to if you want to 

you can shun me. 

I stumble through the streets with my pride and my arrogance 

I spit right in your face when you invite me to dance 

I go months and years at a time terminally unique 

With my pills and my bottle of wine 

I am very very very very very very very very weak. 

I can't get out of bed the hangover's got my head 

So I forgot to take the garbage out and put the kid to bed 

We're all wandering around in my house 

like the night of the living dead 

I'm someone that you can look at and be glad 

you're not me instead. 

Underneath your sobriety and your piety and your quiet 

there's a human being there who's got a spirit and has to 

learn how to fly it. 

The controls are on the panel 

and the manual's in the flotation device. But if it comes to 

using that you've already crashed through thin ice. 

I'm not saying I'm better than you I feel like you're saying 

you're better than me 

You say "Tough luck I sobered up and now I'm running the 

company" 

Your Higher Power he's like my God he'll take you out in a 

flash you'll see 

And do the same for all your loved ones and the ones like me 

you pity.