IOU

You didn't choose to be born And I never heard of anyone who has I never known no baby with a plan For how to survive, how to stay alive You shower with your silver on And you brush you hair with a round brush you keep in your bag And now I do the same, it seems like the only whole plan To lead a double life, two chances to get it right You hid it for a moment But I could see it in your almost drowning face That you don't know what's up, what's down, what to do And that's how come all those tattoos And I'm talking about all of mine, too IOU IOU I do, I do, I do, I do When my brother learned to drive He said no car was gonna pass him by, no way Yeah, he said he would cut the throat of anyone who tried And that was just one of his lies, and let me tell you mine I've never cried One tear in my whole damn life And I know full well What makes the shadows on my walls Because I cast them there all by myself Stay in some way Lay a rose on my stage And if you want my woman wet It's like a bird building a nest, give it time If I can do it, if I can do it Then you can do it too Objects in the mirror are so much closer than they appear You went too deep into the Big Deep And that's the trouble with being born I'm gonna put to bed the shame that I keep It's the only way to stay alive, I just wanna be alive What you hide is true God don't take sides, but I do, yeah What you hide is true God don't take sides, but I do I do, I do, and so do you Stay in some way Lay a rose on my stage And if you want my woman wet It's like a bird building a nest, give it time If I can do it, if I can do it Then you can do it too Objects in the mirror are so much closer than they appear And you appear