Ben Folds Presents: University a Cappella! lyrics

Well I thought about the army
Dad said, "Son you're fucking high"
And I thought, yeah there's a first for everything
So I took my old man's advice
Three sad semesters
It was only fifteen grand spent in bed
I thought about the army
I dropped out and joined a band instead
Grew a moustache and a mullet
Got a job at Chic-fil-a
Citing artistic differences
The band broke up in May

6 a.m. day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold, car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping, I am numb
An' up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out
And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

What I've kept with me and what I've thrown away
Know where the hell I've ended up on this glary random day
Where the things I really cared about, just left along the way
For being to pent up and proud
Woke up way too late feeling hung over and old
And the sun was shining bright, I walked barefoot down the road
Started thinking about my old man, it seems that all men

Well, he shouted out his last word
And he stumbled through the yard
And she shattered her last China plate
And spun off in the car
When he lunched onto the hood
She stopped to tell him she'd been wrong
He was thrown head over heels
Into the traffic coming on but then
All is fair
All is fair in love
Did you get my other letters?
Sometimes I think I oughta call
'Cause you know I often

Take a walk, out the gate you go and never stop
Past all the stores and wig shops
Quarter in a cup for every block
And watch the buildings grow smaller as you go
Down the tracks, beautiful McMansions on a hill
That overlook a highway with riverboat casinos
And you still have yet to see a soul
Jesusland
Jesusland
Town to town, broadcast to each house
They drop your name but no one knows your face

We'd hit the bottom
I thought it was my fault
And in a way I guess it was
I'm just now finding out what it was all about
We'd moved to the west coast
Away from everyone
She never told me that you called
Back when I was still, I was still in love
'Till I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's bye-bye, goodbye, I tried

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?

From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
And I hoped you would
We could see that you weren't yourself
And the lines on your face did tell
It's just as well you'd never be yourself again
Saw you last night, dance by the light of the moon
Stars in your eyes, free from the life that you knew
You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground

You took a trip and climbed a tree
At Robert Sledge's party
And there you stayed till morning came
You were not the same after that
You gave your life to Jesus Christ
And after all your friends went home
You came down, you looked around
You were not the same after that
You were not the same after that
You were not the same after that
You see 'em drop like flies from the bright sunny skies

I said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back
Are all the dishes intact?
Let them be broken
It's easy to be
Easy and Free
When it doesn't mean anything
You remain selfless, cold and composed
You've done me no favor
to call and be nice
Telling me I
Can take anything I like
You don't owe me to be so Polite
You've done no wrong
You've done no wrong

Good morning, son, I am a bird wearing a brown polyester shirt
You want a coke? Maybe some fries?
The roast beef combo's only dollar 9.95
It's okay, you don't have to pay, I've got all the change
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up and everybody does
It's so weird to be back here let me tell you what
The years go on and we're still fighting it, we're still fighting it

Think of me anyway you want
I can be the problem, if that's easier
In your head, move the pieces around
Things I've said, turn the memory upside down
And it makes it better, I know
But sometimes it's hard to swallow
And in time I will fade away
And in time I won't hear what you say
In time, but time takes time you know
Tell your friends the things they wanna hear and see

I wanna ask you do you ever sit and wonder?
It's so strange we could be together for
So long and never know never care
What goes on in the other one's head
Things I felt but I never said
You said things that I never said so
I'll say something that I should have said long ago
You don't know me, you don't know me at all
You don't know me, you don't know me at all