I've really got to clean up my room   You know it's been so long since I've seen my floor   It's getting kind of scary in fact I suspect   That when I finally clear away I won't know her anymore      How we'll have grown so far apart   From those early days with a fresh new start   So in the end it won't matter at all   So why should I bother with the rise and the fall?   So I quietly lay back down and watch TV      But these are the things we tell ourselves   Oh, eventual stories designed to amuse   It's a game we play and we play it well   In fact we're so damn good that we try to lose      So we can keep hiding   So we can survive   And keep on believing   Someday we'll go outside and drive   Gonna go outside and drive      I have resolved not to leave my house   Till my floor comes back and my room is clean   So I'm really kind of glad that my TV's here   While I concoct my plan to fulfill my dream      Now won't that be wonderful when I'll finally be done   I just can't wait for it then I'll start to have fun   It's getting hard lately to concentrate   All my appointments canceled 'cause I'm horribly late   You know I think I need a prison, in order to dream of being free      But these are things we tell ourselves   Oh, eventual stories designed to amuse   It's a game we play and we play it well   In fact we're so damn good that we try to lose      So we can keep hiding   So we can survive   And keep on believing   Someday we'll go outside and drive      Now weeks have gone by and my room's not done   In fact I could say that it's gotten much worse   Old Chinese food and ravioli cans   Amongst the crumpled letters the mood's quite perverse      But I got a new TV with a remote control   Styrofoam and instructions fill that hole   Where I once cleared a path where I once blazed a trail   To the bathroom, but I fear that a nail   Is buried there now and I step very rarely   Try not to get out of bed      You know tomorrow I'll get up and I'll walk out my door   And life will return to the way that it was   But I think I'm getting sick I'd better give it a day   It must not get a foothold, but it usually does      So I'll sit right here till I'm old and gray   I need my rest after all I'm wasting away   And I just saw a cockroach crawl out of my sneaker   I think he's biding his time till I get somewhat weaker      Things could still work out for me as long as I'm not dead   As long as I'm not, as long as I'm, I'm not dead, I'm, I'm not   I'm not dead, no I'm not dead, no I'm, I'm not dead, I'm not dead      But these are the things we tell ourselves   Oh, eventual stories designed to amuse   It's a game we play and we play it well   In fact we're so damn good that we try to lose      So we can keep hiding   So we can survive   And keep on believing   Someday we'll go outside and drive   We're gonna go outside and drive      I'm still alive, yeah   Is it raining or is it sunny?   I wonder if it's light outside   What's it like outside?   Is it sunny or is it rainy?   I wonder if it's raining