Now I could sit here and baffle you   With shallow babble   And a bunch of punch lines   You probably won't get   Or even use some big words   That you'd have to look up   But, I'm not a teacher   So go ahead and close your book up   I could tell a fairy tale so convincing   And keep a straight face from beginning   To happy ending   I could waste 32 bars telling you how to live   Knowing damn well I used mtv cribs for the blueprint   I could bore you to death with my past relationships   Or a little ditty bout Jack and Dianne   Or I could go back to childhood   Dig up them skeletons   And spit them at you with a catchy hook   Look, I could strike a nerve with some four letter words   That'll make Richard Pryor proud   Or better yet, I could sing a jingle that'll contort and mingle   Every single solitary letter in the alphabet      (I could tell you whatever you want to hear   But if I just said hello would you listen to me?   I could sell a blind man new ears   If I just said hello would you listen to me?   I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear   But I'm dying because their aint nobody listening to me   Been relying on myself on myself for more than 22 years   And I aint crying I just need someone to listen to me   Can I get some reply get maybe some kind of sign   to let me know that you're listening to me?   Just from time to time I get lost in my mind   Its hard to find someone to listen to me   My ears were open when you needed some consoling   I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes   Every time I say hello)      I could talk about my duds   And my thrift store scores   But that probably wouldn't interest you   But why should it   I mean, I've seen a lot of shit in 22 years   But your feet in my shoes isn't something I recall   And I've been known to drink 22 beers   Before a show 'cause   otherwise I probably wouldn't have the balls   I could make references to books I never read   For the sake of sounding conscious   But, that's just obnoxious   I could take off these bandages and   Expose these papercuts   And put them in the air   with both my middle fingers up   or talk about myself in third person   like I'm better than you   'cause there's nothing else better to do   I could attack your character from   Eighty different angles   Cleverly explaining exactly how wack you are   But why do that when it's a well known fact   you buying this cd is potentially feeding me   (come on)      (I could tell you whatever you want to hear   But if I just said hello would you listen to me?   I could sell a blind man new ears   If I just said hello would you listen to me?   I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear   But I'm dying because their aint nobody listening to me   Been relying on myself on myself for more than 22 years   And I aint crying I just need someone to listen to me   Can I get some reply get maybe some kind of sign   to let me know that you're listening to me?   Just from time to time I get lost in my mind   Its hard to find someone to listen to me   My ears were open when you needed some consoling   I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes   Every time I say hello)      Hello, is there anybody out there?    Hello, is there anybody out there?    Hello, is there anybody out there?    Hello, is there anybody out there?    Hello, is there anybody out there?