WHERE ZERO MEETS FIFTEEN
(FIVE IRON FRENZY)
Car broke down in Arizona,
Have to ride the bus again...
Ten o'clock on Tuesday night
With thirteen cents and a broken pen...
Put my backpack on the bench,
Tell two people I don't smoke,
See the cop across the street,
Thinks that I am selling dope...
I could have walked another block,
To get away from the scene!
Why does it always come to this,
Where the zero meets the fifteen?
So I gave my thirteen cents to the man who peed his pants,
He passes out and falls on me,
I watch my change fall from his hands...
See the lady next to me,
Holds her baby black and blue...
Junkie gutter punks keep asking where I got my new tattoo...
What does it matter anyway?
Thirteen cents or all I own,
How can I ever save the world
On cup of soup and student loans?
And I,
Wanna try to save the world,
But it never goes that way...
God I don't know what to do,
Down at Colfax and Broadway!
Now the man with no shoes on
Says I don't know how to play...
He says I fumble all the time;
He thinks that I am John Elway!
Put my face down in my hands,
Water wells inside my eyes,
What do I have to give?
What does it matter if I try?
I can't stand to see you suffer,
I try to intellectualize,
A formula to end your pain,
Cause you were- God knows I try!
And I,
Wanna try to save the world,
But it never goes that way...
God I don't know what to do,
Down at Colfax and Broadway!