Well you knew me pretty well   but I never let you see my dark side   so it's perfectly appropriate   that I'm careening down the highway   screaming at the top of my lungs   praying for the courage to do something reckless      well a short hiatus of perceived bliss   I guess it's back to courting the grey cloud I used to love   but you don't deserve the satisfaction   of being the one who pushed me over the edge   so tone it down a notch   just a six-pack and some cigarettes   and I'm stumbling in the street looking something pitiful   like the old cat you put out she looked bewildered   for a while but she's getting meaner by the minute      maybe I'm just angry   for the love songs you murdered mid-verse   or maybe I'm just angry   'cause it all fell down for you first   because it all fell down for you first      well would it all be so easy   if you had to look me straight in the eye   if I were there to contradict   all the pretty stories you tell to justify yourself?   well now I find it hard to believe   you don't have a thing to say to me   you don't write, you don't call   you're just getting cruel and we're both getting petty   I want my twenty bucks and my black shirt   oh you better be happy, you better be happy      well maybe I'm just angry   for these battered, tainted memories   or maybe I'm just angry   because now you feel so free   I guess now you feel so free   I guess now you feel so...      well if you think too big or you think too small   it'll lead you down the same road   you'll figure out life rewards the worst in us   yeah you can take and take and take some more   and you'll never get what you deserve   this is me at my most cynical   now this is me at my most cynical      and I'm getting meaner by the minute   I said I'm getting meaner by the minute...      well you knew me pretty well   but I never let you see my dark side