DESCRIPTION:
by Neil Cleary (Exgirlfriend Music, ASCAP)
Recorded by Mark Spencer at Tape Kitchen, Brooklyn NY
Doozy Records/Diesel Only Records 2003
www.neilcleary.com

hey, kicked out of the band
you got time on your hands
you just worry it away
every single day

girlfriend's in New York
money's getting short
all the bills are in your name

but you quit that steady job
when the band was takin off
used to be your ticket
so you sold that big four-ten
for February rent
hoped you'd never miss it

but you're gettin pretty bored
drivin pizzas to the dorms
havin rich Long Island kids
stiff you on the tip
movies on TV, afternoons at the OP
have got you in their grip

and all the old friends that you meet
down South Winooksi Street
want some kind of inside story
were you pushed or did you jump
are they just assholes or what
trying to ignore it

but life goes on, exactly when you
wish it'd stop, just back off
and give you a little time
but time rolls on, sometimes just to piss you off
well come on, and don't get left behind

hey, your sister's married now
your roommate's passin' out
you're wide awake at dawn,
barely hanging on
and it's always dark by six
like some stupid magic trick
turn around the light's all gone

and everything you do
seems to wait for your next move
but your next move just ain't comin
and all you've got are halves
of sixteen different plans
like it should add up to something
and somehow it just doesn't

and life goes on, exactly when you
wish it'd stop, just back off
and give you a little time
but time rolls on, sometimes just to piss you off
well come on, and don't get left behind