The cardboard box that I use to mend my shoes   has shrunk to a couple of square feet   My diet consists of dandelion-roots   Sleeping on a dirt bed with thorn-sheets   Both of my socks are getting kind of stiff   since I ran out of toilet paper   And I don't think that I'd ever change anything even if   I would come to see my state as a failure      My ambition   needs nutrition   for me to do something about it      But hey, it ain't everything   Hey, it ain't everything   Hey, it ain't everything   though most peoples lives seem to be all about it      Earlier today I chopped my leg off by the knee   as I thought that it would add a little something   to my otherwise so meagre and fastidious cuisíne   and also, give the dog a new play-thing.   I'm nearly finished digging a hole in a dung-heep   Smelly but well isolated   At least now in the winter I will have somewhere to sleep   with my 38 degree radiator      My ambition   needs nutrition   for me to do something about it      But hey, it ain't everything   Hey, it ain't everything   Hey, it ain't everything   though most peoples lives seem to be all about it