[Hook:]. Swing, out of your shoes. And if you should lose this time. Keep on swinging and swinging and soon. When you connect. With all of your strength.
Back in the day. Daddy would say. That if I kept on making ugly faces. And I wasn't careful it'd stay that way. Oh great! Wow, no shit. Ooh, hooray, that's so sick!.
Everything is A-OK. Because I'm strong as an O-A-K (Oak!). But money don't grow on trees (nope). And I'm B-R-O-K-E (Broke!). . Them rims them rings them things, you can bring em out.
Yeah, I've been doing that. I've been doing that ever since I was in kindergarten. I've been doing that for a long long long long, long long long long long long time.
There's like only one bully in my class. He just thinks he's all cool, he thinks he's smarter than me. He thinks a lot of things!. You know, you know Brazilian ju jitsu right?.
Send in that sunshine. Make everything right. Turn on your love light. Cause baby I'm coming on by. Send in that sunshine. Make everything right. Cause there ain't no suffering in life.
And the moral of the story is. (Pause). And the moral of the story is. (Work!) till your arms fall off. Till your abs get hard and your bone's all soft.
The first time I went back to homeroom from the hospital. I thought that being more embarrassed was impossible. But God, the second time it really turned my stomach.
It's hard to be living. You gotta play the cards you were given. You think it's simple but it goddamn isn't. It's tougher now than breaking out of Shawshank prison.
Out on the curb again. On the curb again. I've come to learn it's hard and firm. Out on the curb again. . I'm in my room making cardboard castles. With shoestring rope.
One tape in the deck. One way to connect (all I need is one). One moment alone. One reason to roam. One place I call home (all I need is one). One tick on the clock.