when they ask me what i need i'll say a capo, a lemonade, a dollar fifty   a big bathtub, prosthetic feet, diana ross' role in mahogany   so i can hang out with billy dee williams, and he can hang out with me   pizza, love, and hominy, grits, peach pits, and songs to sing   more accountability so i can't get away with being mean   shooting stars, dungarees, band aids on both of my knees   a big old house high in the trees, a little shack down by the beach   a motor home with golden keys, an A+ in geography   and lots of time to think, i need more time to think      when they ask me what i've seen i'll say saturn and soliloquies   walden pond, hypocrisy, tetris, and insanity   debt and dope and apathy, ode to joy and pool parties   smooch and run and ancestry, arthur ashe and manatees   sailboats, necessity, lepidopterology   the cave of time, dignity, cirque du soleil and lethargy   surface area, rosaries, fair is fair and billie jean   vonnegut at the university, karmic retribution and bigotry   thyroglossal duct cysts, celibacy, love on the rocks, anonymity   osgood schlatter in my left knee, sad flute solos and decaf tea   silly friends, incontinency, yertle the turtle and hierarchy   do it for johnny, pepsilepsy, powder blue ten speeds and puberty   sylvia plath, conspiracies, bad medicine, karaoke   passing gas, irrelevancy, seize the day and let it be   loving dumb skaters who love pcp, dying and dancing on mtv   close calls and infinity, little kids who look up to me   it's the end of the world as we know it and we didn't start the fire and adam green   i need more time to think, don't you think?   i need more time to think      when they ask me what i need i'll say a capo, a lemonade, a dollar fifty