Standard tuning.
We’ll e
nd up numb from playing video games
and we’ll get s
ick of having s
ex.
And we’ll get f
at from eating candy;
as we dr
ink ourselves to de
ath.
We’ll st
ay up late making mix tapes,
photo-shopping pic
tures of ourselves;
while we mas
turbate to these pixelated images
of stra
ngers fking themsel
ves.
We are very busy
people,
We are very busy
people.
There’s c
rusty socks and stacks of pizza boxes
making t
rails straight to the bed.
And when w
e’re done sleeping we’ll stay busy dreaming of the th
ings
we don’t have ye
t.
Well there’s a l
ong list of chores and sht to do
before we play, oh let’s just p
s away the day (p
s away the day)
Prank call the c
ops down at the station, just for friendly conversation,
requesting s
ongs they never play;
Let’s hear the one that goes like:
We are very busy
people,
We are very busy
people;
But we’ve always got ti
me for new friends.
So come on o
ver and knock on our door, it’s open what you waiting for?
We m
ight be sprawled out on the floor but we still make lovely company.
Pull
up a chair, I’ll pour some tea, we’ll shoot the sht, ’bout everything,
till y
ou get sick of politics and flip on the TV scree
n,
we st
are at the TV screen.
That Donnie D
arko DVD has been repeating for a week,
and we know
every single word. (
every single word)
I got an
iPod like a pirate ship,
I’ll sail the sea with fifty thousand
songs I never heard
And all the best of them go
La la, la la la la – La la, la la la la
La la, la la la la – La la, la la la la