Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office

Modest Mouse

Dead end job at the dead letter office
I seem so sad but I'm so sick, so sick
Dead end life with a bad plan, grand scheme
Don't you know that I'm doing the best I can?

I know I made decisions
I am wrong
Oh, I know I made the wrong decision
I am wrong

So you wonder, wonder how
How I get here, got here now
Well, I put on my shoes and socks
Goddamn if I walked here tick for tock
So you wonder, wonder how
How I get here, got here now

Dead end job with the dead letter office
I seem so sad but I am so sick, so sick
Dead end life with a bad plan, grand scheme
Don't you know that I'm doing the best I can?

I know I made decisions
I am wrong
I know I made that wrong decision
I am wrong


So you wonder, wonder how
How I get here, got here now
Well, I put on my shoes and socks
Goddamn if I walked here tick for tock

I know I made decisions
I am wrong
I know I made that wrong decision
I am wrong


Lyrics submitted by Dragon1629, edited by MechanicalBirds

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    where did you get this song?

    noone1111111111111111111on December 23, 2005   Link

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