Three weeks and counting ‘till he's on his way to France Not a dime in his pocket but a ticket in his hand He's a cynical bastard but there's hope in his eyes It's been a long time coming It's been a long time running from his insides
He tries hard to songwrite his way out of bed But nothing tastes and clever as it sounded in his head He wants to get his teeth wet and sink his feet in He should have billions of dollars ‘Cause every ass hole's put two cents in
But he writes the songs yeah He can say what he wants yeah He can be who he wants to And they say he's wrong But they keep tagging along Yeah they can leave if they want to And his way will never meet yours He's got the world his back And watch him take it On all fours
Nine out of ten mother fuckers agree That his fucking foul language Is a fucking travesty But mother fucking fuck is just another fucking word The idea a word is dirty is too in-fucking-absurd
But he writes the songs yeah He can say what he wants yeah He can be who he wants to And they say he's wrong But they keep tagging along Yeah they can leave if they want to And his way will never meet yours He's got the world his back And watch him take it On all fours
And this world will soon be the death of him And his voice will fade away And his jeans will be all that's left of him And they'll wonder if he was okay And the alchys will say it was drinking And the preacher will say it was sin And his mother will say he was thinking Only of himself again And the gays will say it was straight people And the straights will say it was AIDS And he'll be in line at the gate People still standing in his way In his way
Yeah he writes the songs And he can say what he wants yeah He can be who he wants to And they say he's wrong But they keep tagging along Yeah they can leave if they want to And his way will never meet yours He's got the world his back And watch him take it On all fours