I'm With S

I'm a superball
You can bounce me once and i ricochet
Around the room
I'm a superball
If i pick up speed get out of my way
I'm a sonic boom


And i warn you now
The velocity i'm gathering
Will knock you down
Send the chairs and lamps all scattering


'cause i'm a superball
If you think there'll be no aftershocks
Well i'm a superball
Read the fine print on the back of the box
Stick to slinkies, hot wheels, alphabet blocks


-guitar solo-


And i warn you now
The velocity i'm gathering
Will knock you down
Send the chairs and lamps all scattering


It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing...

i'm told the case is now closed so i can come to my senses but when the
Question is posed i'll have this meager defense

I was hoping that you'd know better than that i was hoping but you're an
Amateur i was hoping that you'd know better but i've been wrong before
Despite conclusions i drew there was a chance you'd surprise me and you'd be
Better than you 'cause i'd have left otherwise

I was hoping that you'd know better than that i was hoping but you're an
Amateur i was hoping that you'd know better but i've been wrong before
So i wasn't thinking clearly so you didn't think at all i thought that was
Protocol

-piano/guitar solo-

I was hoping that you'd know better than that i was hoping but you're an
Amateur i was hoping that you'd know better but i've been wrong before
I was hoping that i was hoping but you're an amateur i was hoping that you'd
Know better but i've been wrong before

All you want to do is something good
So get ready to be ridiculed and misunderstood
'cause don't you know that you're a fucking freak in this world
In which everybody's willing to choose swine over pearls


And maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'cause god knows it's not safe with anybody else

You can take your own advice and try again
But a thousand compromises don't add up to a win
And they'd be happy if you'd only cover your tracks
But the trail of crumbs you've left won't help you find your way back


So maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'cause god knows it's not safe with anybody else
God knows it's not safe with anybody else

You can play along, but you'll just end up wrong somehow, won't you


-guitar solo-


But you're the idiot who keeps believing in luck
And you just can't get it through your head that no one else gives a fuck


So maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'cause god knows it's not safe with anybody else
God knows it's not safe with anybody else

-guitar solo-


God knows it's not safe with anybody else
It's not safe with anybody else
God knows it's not safe with anybody else

-52 secs of silence-


(play that guitar
But you're the idiot who keeps believing in luck
The speaker is out of the picture
I'm talking to the microphone
The microphone thinks that i'm talking
But i'm not talking at all
I'm singing to you)

It's par for the course
You bet the wrong horse
You put down the phone and cried
For yourself
And for what
You couldn't have


A plea
That won't do
Now that she
Serves it to you


And i don't even know you
I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you
I don't even know you

It's all you deserve
The loss of the nerve
The grade of the curve
Has brought you to this
By the boat that you missed
You clung to the raft
So she swerved out of your path


And i don't even know you
I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you anymore

-guitar solo-


You loved her a lot
But she lost the plot
And timing is everything
In this game
So let's have
A moment of blame


Think how
It could have been
Well you should
Have said it all then


And i don't even know you
I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you anymore

-string solo-


I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you anymore

(i still have the shake in my voice
And i'm going to sing you this song)


I don't know you from adam, it could make my day
If you leave me a message i'll give it away
'cause the most perfect strangers that you can talk to
Are the ones who pretend that you're not really you


Are with any attempts here to play frankenstein
Come with plenty of chances for changing your mind
When you're building your own creation
Nothing's better than real than a real
Imitation


I won't find it fantastic or think it absurd
When the gun in the first act goes off in the third
'cause it's rare that you ever know what to expect
From a guy made of corpses with bolts in his neck


If the creature is limping the parts are in place
With a mind of its own and a fist for a face
Say hello to your new creation
Now it's better than real
It's a real imitation


You may wonder what the catch is
As we batten down the hatches


And when later we find that the thing we devised
Has the villagers clamouring for it's demise
We will have to admit the futility of
Trying to make something more of this jerry-built love


And you'll notice it bears a resemblance to
Everything i imagined i wanted from you
But at least it's my own creation
And it's better than real
It's a real imitation

(and if this is one of your ten thousand dollar hours
Don't forget to write it down
Help is on the way)


Skip the cloak and dagger bit
Don't you know we're sick of it
As much as i would like to stay
The message light just blinks away
And while i'm here you won't push play


So you leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no

Option to indulge in this
Exercise in cowardice
Ignorance without the bliss


'cause you leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no

-guitar solo-


'cause i know where this boat will go
Pulled down by the undertow
It's lucky i know
How to row


So row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
I hope you drown and never come up


'cause you leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no

(one two)


In our endeavor we are never seeing eye to eye
No guts to sever so forever may we wave goodbye
And you're always telling me that it's my turn to move
When i wonder what could make the needle jump the groove
I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book
So don't sit there and think you're off of the hook
By saying there is no use changing 'cause


That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Acting steady always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth, did i offend your ears
By suggesting that a change might be a thing to try
Like it would kill you just to try and be a nicer guy
It's not like you would lose some critical piece
If somehow you moved point a to point b
Maintaining there is no point changing 'cause


That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Now i could talk to you till i'm blue in the face
But we still would arrive at the very same place
With you running around and me out of the race


-very cool keyboard (mellotron?) solo-


So maybe you're right, nobody can take
Something older than time and hope you could make
It better, that would be a mistake
So take it just so far


'cause that's just what you are
That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Acting steady always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth, did i offend your ears
You're like a sleepwalking man, it's a danger to wake you
Even when it is apparent where your actions will take you


That's just what you are
And that's just what you are
That's just what you are
That's just what you are