This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I read a fun fact about the brain
And how it starts to deteriorate when
We get to 27 or there abouts
It got me thinking about my head
And what I can do to help stimulate it
Makes me sad, but...
I've forgotten what I'm on about
Woah!
Looked on the bright side, got keratitis
And you can't sit there unless you're righteous
I wear a happy face like I'm Ed Gein
I feel numb now, is that a feeling?
Like a plastic boxed orange with no peel on
I wanna waste, I wanna waste
I wanna waste away
Yeah!
Alone getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oi Debbie Downer, what's the problem?
Don't wanna be here, still call a shotgun
You got the fomo coursing through my veins
This is not a drill, no, this is the real world
Domnesticated still a little feral
Well, don't you know to chew with your mouth closed?
Alone getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Alright
I got a Type 2 kinda thirstiness
A far out other worldliness
And one day this might hurt me less
But everybody knows I'm still down
Don't tell me what the butcher does
There's no need for the obvious
So ugly still it's kinda lush
But everybody knows I made vows
Left feet on the podium
Can't think of an alternate
And hell yeah, I'm the awkwardest
But everybody know I got bounce
Alone getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
And how it starts to deteriorate when
We get to 27 or there abouts
It got me thinking about my head
And what I can do to help stimulate it
Makes me sad, but...
I've forgotten what I'm on about
Woah!
Looked on the bright side, got keratitis
And you can't sit there unless you're righteous
I wear a happy face like I'm Ed Gein
I feel numb now, is that a feeling?
Like a plastic boxed orange with no peel on
I wanna waste, I wanna waste
I wanna waste away
Yeah!
Alone getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oi Debbie Downer, what's the problem?
Don't wanna be here, still call a shotgun
You got the fomo coursing through my veins
This is not a drill, no, this is the real world
Domnesticated still a little feral
Well, don't you know to chew with your mouth closed?
Alone getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Alright
I got a Type 2 kinda thirstiness
A far out other worldliness
And one day this might hurt me less
But everybody knows I'm still down
Don't tell me what the butcher does
There's no need for the obvious
So ugly still it's kinda lush
But everybody knows I made vows
Left feet on the podium
Can't think of an alternate
And hell yeah, I'm the awkwardest
But everybody know I got bounce
Alone getting high on a Saturday night
I'm on the edge of a knife
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Oh what a wonderful life
Nobody cares if I'm dead or alive
Oh what a wonderful life
Lyrics submitted by AdamArtz
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I like the Music Video which shows Dads with their young kids, and guys walking around all alone including the Danzig type guy shopping for his cat.
The tattooed guy who doesn't know how his plumbing works. The guy watering his Caravan (RV) with open (or broken) windows.
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