Room For Squares lyrics

"Welcome to the real world", she said to me
Condescendingly
Take a seat
Take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school

I am driving up 85 in the
Kind of morning that lasts all afternoon
just stuck inside the gloom
4 more exits to my apartment but
I am tempted to keep the car in drive
And leave it all behind

Cause I wonder sometimes
About the outcome
Of a still verdictless life

Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why?

My stupid mouth
Has got me in trouble
I said too much again
To a date over dinner yesterday
And I could see
She was offended
She said "well anyway..."
Just dying for a subject change

Oh, another social casualty
Score one more for me
How could I forget
Mama said "think before speaking"
No filter in my head
Oh, what's a boy to do
I guess he better find one soon

We bit our lips

We got the afternoon
You got this room for two
One thing I've left to do
Discover me
Discovering you

One mile to every inch of
Your skin like porcelain
One pair of candy lips and
Your bubblegum tongue

And if you want love
We'll make it
Swim in a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while

Your body Is a wonderland

When sky blue gets dark enough
To see the colors of the city lights
A trail of ruby red and diamond white
Hits her like a sunrise

She comes and goes and comes and goes
Like no one can

Tonight she's out to lose herself
And find a high on Peachtree Street
From mixed drinks to techno beats it's always
Heavy into everything

She comes and goes and comes and goes
Like no one can

I never liked this apple much
It always seemed too big to touch
I can't remember how I found
My way before she came around

I tell everyone
I smile just because
I've got a city love
I found it in Lydia
And I can't remember love before her name

She keeps a toothbrush at my place
As if I had the extra space
She steals my clothes to wear to work
I know - her hairs are on my shirts

I've these dreams of
Walking home
Home where it used to be
And everything is
As it was
Frozen in front of me

Here I stand
6 feet small
romanticizing years ago
but it's a bitter sweet feeling hearing
"Wrapping Around Your Finger" on the radio

and these days
I wish I was 6 again
Oh make me a red cape
I wanna be Superman

Oh, if only my life was more like 1983

I'm writing you to

catch you up on places I've been

And you held this letter
probably got excited, but there's nothing else inside it

Didn't have a camera by my side this time

hoping I would see the world through both my eyes

maybe I will tell you all about it when I'm

in the mood to use my way with words

Today skies are painted colors of a cowboy cliché

Staying home alone on a Friday
Flat on the floor looking back
On old love
Or lack thereof
After all the crushes are faded
And all my wishful thinking was wrong
I'm jaded
I hate it

I'm tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
So tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here

Searching all my days just to find you
I'm not sure who I'm looking for
I'll know it
When I see you

Back to you
It always comes around
Back to you
I tried to forget you
I tried to stay away
But it's too late

Over you
I'm never over
Over you
Something about you
It's just the way you move
The way you move me

I'm so good at forgetting
And I quit ever game I play
But forgive me, love
I can't turn and walk away
This way

Back to you
It always comes around
Back to you
I walk with your shadow

Check your pulse it's proof that you're not listening to
The call your life's been issuing you
The rhythm of a line of idle days

Scared of a world outside you should go explore
Pull all the shades and wander the great indoors
The great indoors

Lamplight makes the shadows play
And posters take the walls away
The T.V. is your window pane
The view won't let you down

Suppose I said
I am on my best behavior
And there are times
I lose my worried mind

Would you want me when I'm not myself?
Wait it out while I am someone else?

Suppose I said
Colors change for no good reason
And words will go
From poetry to prose

Would you want me when I'm not myself?
Wait it out while I am someone else?

And I, in time, will come around
I always do for you

Here comes the cold
Break out the winter clothes
And find a love to call your own
You - enter you
Your cheeks a shade of pink
And the rest of you in powder blue

Who knows what will be
But I'll make you this guarantee

No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time

In the dark, on the phone

Why Georgia intro (Any Given Thursday)

Fold me up
Take me out
I'm portable

Fold me up
Take me out
I'm portable

Well out here, we have anything we want
We have anything we want at all
Well out here, we'll just bolt it to the floor
tape it to the wall

Rolling with the satellite
Watching the Cosby show on Nick At Night
I'm weary but I'm feeling right
I am a soldier now

And these days
And these days
I wish, I wish, I wish I was six again
I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish
I wish, I wish, I wish I was six again
If only my...

I've these dreams of
Walking home
Home where it used to be
Everything is as it was
Frozen in front of me

Here I stand, six feet small
Romanticizing years ago

I never liked this Apple much
It always seemed too big to touch
I can't remember how I found
My way before she came around

I tell everyone
I smile just because
I got a city love
I found it in Lydia
And I can't remember life before her name

She keeps a toothbrush at my place
As if I had the extra space
She steals my clothes to wear to work
I know her hairs are on my shirt

Stay at home alone on a Friday
Flat on my floor looking back
On old love
Or lack thereof
After all the crushes have faded
And all my wishful thinking was wrong
I'm jaded
I hate it

I'm tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
So tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
Get here..

Searching all my days just to find you
Not sure who I'm looking for
I'll know it

Think I'm gonna stay home

Have myself a homelife

Sittin' in the slow-mo

And listenin' to the daylight

I am not a nomad
I am not a rocket man

I was born a house cat

By the SLIGHT of my mother's hand

Think I'm gonna stay home

I want to live in the center of a circle

I want to live on the side of a square

I used to be in my ?? SCENE

We got the afternoon

You got this room for two

One thing I've left to do...

Discover me, discovering you

One mile to every inch of,

your skin like porcelin.

One pair of candy lips

and your bubble gum tounge.

And if you want love, we'll make it

Swim in a deep sea, of blankets

Take all your big plans, and break 'em

this is bound to be awhile...

Midnight. Lock all the doors

And turn out the lights

Feels like the end of the world

This Sunday night.

There’s not a sound

Outside the snow’s comin down

And somehow I can’t seem to find

A quiet inside my mind

Three o two. The space in this room

has turned on me.

All my fears have cornered me here.

Me and my TV screen.

The volumes down.

And these days

And these days

I wish, I wish, I wish I was six again

I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish

I wish, I wish, I wish I was six again
If only my...

I've these dreams of

Walking home

Home where it used to be

Everything is as it was

Frozen in front of me

Here I stand, six feet small

Romanticizing years ago