The Good Life

Album: Pinkerton (1996)
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  • Yeah, check me

    When I look in the mirror
    I can't believe what I see
    Tell me, who's that funky dude
    Staring back at me?
    Broken, beaten down
    Can't even get around
    Without an old man cane
    I fall and hit the ground
    Shivering in the cold
    I'm bitter and alone

    Excuse the bitching
    I shouldn't complain
    I should have no feeling
    'Cause feeling is pain
    As everything I need
    Is denied me
    And everything I want
    Is taken away from me
    But who do I got to blame?
    Nobody but me

    And I don't wanna be an old man anymore
    It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
    Shaking booty, making sweet love all the night
    It's time I got back to the good life
    It's time I got back, it's time I got back
    And I don't even know how I got off the track
    I wanna go back, yeah

    Screw this crap, I've had it (I've had it)
    I ain't no Mr. Cool
    I'm a pig, I'm a dog
    So excuse me if I drool
    I ain't gonna hurt nobody
    Ain't gonna cause a scene
    Just need to admit
    That I want sugar in my tea
    Hear me? Hear me? I want sugar in my tea

    And I don't wanna be an old man anymore
    It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
    Shaking booty, making sweet love all the night
    It's time I got back to the good life
    It's time I got back, it's time I got back
    And I don't even know how I got off the track
    I wanna go back, yeah

    I wanna go back, I wanna go back
    And I don't even know how I got off the track
    It's time I got back, it's time I got back
    And I don't even know how I got off the track
    I wanna go back, yeah

    And I don't wanna be an old man anymore
    It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
    Shaking booty, making sweet love all the night
    It's time I got back to the good life
    It's time I got back, it's time I got back
    And I don't even know how I got off the track
    It's time I got back, it's time I got back
    And I don't even know how I got off the track
    I wanna go back
    I wanna go back Writer/s: Rivers Cuomo
    Publisher: E O Smith Music, O/B/O CAPASSO
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