There's a beer soaked poorly lit stage
In Mount Adams where we used to play
It reminds me of – My Lucky Day

I saw you there you were bored in the crowd
You were too cool to talk out loud
That's OK I do the talking for two

Chorus
I knew it would take you awhile
For you to realize my charm
I knew it would take you awhile
For you to realize my charm

I went from paging to your answering machine
Then I made it off the calls that you screen
I got to see you every couple of weeks

Then I'm walking your dog in the snow
Freezing cold, it must be 20 below
Oh My God – I must be in love

Chorus
I knew it would take you awhile
For you to realize my charms
I knew it would take you awhile
For you to realize my charms

I say that Everything's Chicago
She says everything's Berlin
I say we are doing all right
She thinks being poor is a sin

I read that Hell is other people
I laughed - I thought it was true
But later on I realized
I was other people too

Chorus
I've got to say I'm sorry
To everyone I let down along the way
I'll try to make it all up to them
But what I owe you cannot be repaid

We'll never get to Paris
We'll probably never make it home
If I had a plan then I forgot it
So I'll try to keep you safe and warm

A part of me just died the other day
It turns out it was the only part I liked
The only thing left that I can count on my dear
Is that you are always right

Chorus I've got to say I'm sorry
To everyone I let down along the way
I'll try to make it all up to them
But what I owe you can never be repaid

You know that I'll take care of you
Even when I can't take care of me
The only thing that I ask
Is that you never leave

That it's all or nothing
Every man for himself
You can kiss me darling
And I won't tell

Love is a rattle yet love has never failed
Not when it is given true
Left to my own devices once again
Whose to say what I might do

CHORUS
Take it easy, take it easy on me
Can't you see I wasn't built for speed
Take it easy, take it easy on me
Can't you see I wasn't built for speed

(Bass Break/Instrumental)

He can buy you a great big house
I can build you a song
If we run out of money
I'll take my amp to be pawned

CHORUS Take it easy, take it easy on me
Can't you see I wasn't built for speed
Take it easy, take it easy on me
Can't you see I wasn't built for speed
Take it easy, take it easy on me
Can't you see I wasn't built for speed
Take it easy, take it easy on me
Can't you see I wasn't built for speed

We met the old-fashioned way, a marriage arranged by ABC
I'd responded to an add for a hopeless romantic wants to be on TV
I'll never forget the day we met on the studio lot
You were homeless, didn't have any teeth
I said, “Hi!” you just pushed your cart

CHORUS I promise to love you forever, till the cameras are off
If we make it to sweeps week baby, Neilsen Ratings will be off the charts
I promise to love you forever, till we get our book deal
You can't read or write, all you want is a hot meal

Baby, that's just selfish

SOLO

MTV wants to show your crib, since your homeless will show ‘em mine
If you can get pregnant still we'll give birth on CBS prime time
NBC bought the rights to our messy divorce
Fox will cover your death
Court TV, my trial, of course

CHORUS
I promise to love you forever, till the cameras are off
If we make it to sweeps week baby, Neilsen Ratings will be off the charts
I promise to love you forever, till we get our book deal
You can't read or write, all you want is a hot meal

While I'm sitting in jail, down at the police station
I only hope they have cable TV, So I can see us in syndication

CHORUS
I promise to love you forever, till the cameras are off
If we make it to sweeps week baby, Neilsen Ratings will be off the charts
I promise to love you forever, till we get our book deal
You can't read or write, all you want is a hot meal

I promise to love you forever, till the cameras are off
If we make it to sweeps week baby, Neilsen Ratings will be off the charts
I promise to love you forever, till we get our book deal
You can't read or write, all you want is a hot meal

There are thirteen roads you can travel by
A hundred ways to make you cry
I know - I've made you cry them all

I went off to find myself
It seems I lost a little more
This isn't rock and roll it's a suicide for sure

CHORUS
I've got a silver locket with no one's picture in it
I've got a lot of love but nowhere to give it
I've got a lot of life, but no will to live it
I've got my beliefs but I don't believe it

She let's herself go only so far
Before she's tightening down her jar
And she's waving goodbye

Her dreams they asked her to let ‘em go
It seems she was moving just a little to slow
And they promised they would write

CHORUS
I've got a silver locket with no one's picture in it
I've got a lot of love but nowhere to give it
I've got a lot of life, but no will to live it
I've got my beliefs but I don't believe it