The Cost Of Living (A Conflict Of Interest)

It's a bad situation when the planned detonation
Keeps telling you that you've got a lot to live for

Financial Aids

Sometimes when the drugs kick in
It's hard to tell how painless work can get
I feel like a perky Perkins personnel
With a prescription for a purse full of Percocet

I like brunettes cause you gotta gotta root
For the underdog
You walk in the sand, holding my hand
You feeling close to god?
(You're supposed to nod)

You could be the one to get up and give 'em everything they deserve
You could be the one to give up and get another drink till you swerve
You should try and get up and give up the habit of losing the nerve

I'm trying to keep it hidden but it's working reverse
Like wearing "Secret Service" on the front of your shirts
There's nothing I can tell you to chip away the way I deceive
I want to get 'em back but I'm heeding the caution
The problem is the fact that it's even an option
I won't admit i just showed up so I could leave

Everything's a product even sex and drugs
Everything's a product even sex and drugs
Everything's a product, is it everything you want it to be? 

Bogus Diagnosis

Smoking a cigarette in public is a personal ad
Like a Versace suit a diamond or a giant nut cup
It looks good like it would in a rehearsal for dad
You feel the need to announce when you're gonna shut up

You're just delaying the inevitable
Why put your mind to it?
You're just repaying the indebitable

And I can't shake the feeling it's a bogus diagnosis
Said I can't fake the healing with a bogus diagnosis
Said I can't shake the feeling it's a bogus diagnosis

Now if I knew it wasn't true I'd probably lie about it
Most of society is deathly unaware of that test
They seem warm to reform but I sincerely doubt it
Cause it's sobriety that put all the hair on my chest

I wonder if it's still impenetrable
I'd be down but I'm above it
I'm under if it's reinvented in full

[repeat chorus]

Nancy Pelosi's Dead

Tried playing god but I didn't know how not to exist
They caught me kissing the lord
And he just gave me a bad case of monotheist
My broken heart pours like I'm getting snubbed again
(I'm smoking Marlboros like I'm a republican)
Singing try me try me, I'm a mother and a moderate
Split at the seam to extreme to ever solder it

But I can't remember where I put my bag of pastries
I said I can't remember where I put my bag of pastries

Now when the cop's picking fights
While he's keeping the peace
I don't know what to do
I get the opposite advice from two different people
With the same I.Q.
My broken heart pours like I'm getting snubbed again
(I'm fuckin' hardcore getting in a tub with them)
Singing try me try me I'm a mother and a moderate
Split at the seam to extreme to ever solder it

Don't let anybody tell you
It ain't over after you ain't breathing
Don't let anybody tell you
It goes on when your heart ain't beating

I Shit Ghosts

I have a genuine fear of becoming everything I hate
I'm developing a genuine fear of becoming Justin Timberlake

It's hard to embrace that I wanna see my face
On the cover of the City Pages
Why do I need the status of the motherfuckin' greatest
When people everywhere are in cages

I'm just smart enough to know that I'm too dumb to fix it
And that's painful
I sympathize with the power-hungry types like Nixon
And that's shameful

I want to impress and I want to do my best
And I'm using my aspiration
But I still can't decide if Tyler Durden got it right
And self-improvment is masturbation

But I'm a scarecrow and I can't stop it
I'm a puppet of my own brain
I'm a scarecrow, don't want to want what I want
But I don't know if I know how to change
I'm a scarecrow, and I shit tons of ghosts
Like a billion

American Standard

You can hold your position under one condition
Everybody must agree with your form of self-expression
And by the way, don't cater to their tastes
Or they'll say "See ya later" to your face
And chase a new obsession

Keep your promise to be honest
When you're gone it's not a comet's
Gonna bomb this world like 'Nam it's still your reputation
All the best, well the richest
As if there's difference
Got there by believing in leaving no room for speculation

Here's a role you can model, here's a handy rubric
Here's a goal you can coddle, here's a Stanley Kubrick

People don't like to think that you float
From opinion to opinion when they feel that you've pandered
So pick one of fifty states of mind, we'll wait
You find your way to meet our American standard

Don't you think it's time we made demands
Against a soul-sucking king, it's grave enough to see
They got the means, the motive, the method planned
And it ain't hard to understand
Why the whole fucking thing is caving in on me

You gotta fight the band that heeds
They're gonna need the ratings in the right direction
You gotta fight the band that heeds
You know they're gonna say it's for your own protection