This is a note, to self situation   A microphone test or a dense dictation   Last time, they tried to fit me in a funny suit   This time, they tried to fill my pocket full of loot   Next time, they'll start to weep while I'm bailing   Next time, I'll have to wait through their wailing   Last time, they had to hang me like a poster   This time, they rode me like a rollercoaster,   Next time, they'll have to find me if they wanna try   Next time, they'll have a long time to wonder why   I always turn my head when they walk by   I make believe my shoelace came untied   Better yet act like something's in my eye   oh I gotta do what I don't want to   High as the heaps that hunt and haunt you   Pouring to paint your peeling won't you   Pull a pal away when he's reeling don't you   Look at last time for one minute   I promise I'll try   Look at this time will and win it   with a gleaming in my eye   Look at next time search and squint it   pull power from the sky   Look at what the light does when we're in it   So I wonder why, I stop to wonder why   Last time, they spread me shallow like the gravel   This time, they struck me twice like a gavel   Order in the court!   What court? is the question   Give no retort, leave everybody guessing   Last time, they bent me over like a rainbow   This time, they step through me like a tango   Next time, I'll abbreviate it so they won't lose their breath every time they say it   oh I'll keep a song inside their head and bloom   Feed it sweet light, fertilize it with some tune   If words are the wrist then music's the perfume   Oh song from the mouth of friend or stranger   Dangerous bird or bird of danger   If you can keep up, well why won't you?   Songs everywhere, so I sing it, don't you?   Look at last time for one minute   I'll promise I'll try   Look at this time will and win it   with a gleaming in my eye   Look at next time search and squint it   pull power from the sky   Look at what the light does when we're in it   Now I wonder why, I stop to wonder why   Last time, last time   This time, this time   Next time, next time   I'll try, I'll try, I'll try