Sister City - Small Talk lyrics

I could have the smarts to tear apart a kid like Solomon But I'll die as soon as the next guy cause I don't take my vitamins I concede It's just like me To dislike everything My stomach's hurt cause I've been hungry but I've never been starving And this is one of maybe three things I've ever put my heart in I believe That it's obscene For a wretch like me to prance and preen So here's to long and lost lives, long lines, lost time and being left behind There's only a couple things I've ever said I truly wish I hadn't As I run my pre-arthritic fingers through the hair I still have on my head I sometimes wonder which machine inside of me will be the first to break Indulging each indignity's inspiring defeat My tail triumphantly between my legs, in luck and luxury Which I will shed Gradually Like baby teeth, these things that I no longer need And here's to jaded, overstated lessons for a completely different time There is only so much that anyone can realize As I stick my nose in generations old dejected garbage I will try to smell the rose that grows out of the wreckage There is hope for me Because I don't have real problems And I'll die one day From a list of gifts genetically I have come to terms With the wood and nails and earth and worms My attention full Looking for a miracle So stop me if the choir starts to practice what I preach I forgive almost everyone for almost everything I'm talking small, my tongue unthawed from pure misanthropy For I am patient, making changes to a new philosophy