An Evening Of Extraordinary Circumstance

An Evening Of Extraordinary Circumstance

Lawrence Arms (The)
(album: A Guided Tour Of Chicago)

Tonight I´ll sit around pushing my shit down the drain
Using a plunger and a clothespin while I wrangle with the chain
Tonight I´ll have potato chips
Watch my favorite shows
Then watch some infomercials
Then watch some TV snow

Tonight I´ll have 9 or 10 beers
Tonight I´ll talk on the telephone mindlessly until my ear
Burns from the feeling from the strain of active nothing
Tonight I´ll avoid my hopes and fears

Tonight I´ll play shitloads of video games
Tonight I´ll decide too late to go get on the train
And play out my stupid, misguided version of fun
Tonight I´ll get stupid fucking drunk
And be an idiot, ashamed of what I´ve done

Tonight I´ll bang out another shitty song that´s unsatisfying
It´s been so fucking long
Since it really felt any other way
Tonight I´ll crumple up these lyrics
And throw them away

Tonight I´ll make promises I know I´ll never keep
Tonight I´ll talk on the telephone wishing I had the energy to sleep
Tonight I´ll sit around and bitch
Tonight I´ll get hungry staring at the mustard in my empty fridge

Maybe tomorrow I won´t smoke no cigarettes
Maybe tomorrow I won´t look back on tonight with vomit soaked regrets
Maybe tomorrow I won´t drown myself in spite
Maybe tomorrow I could try
And tomorrow could be better than tonight

Sleep well and dream
Plastic pillows that give way to someplace green
Sleep well and dream