hey you, why don't you take a hike
up and be brave stand at that center stage mic
tell me your name but more importantly,
why don't you reveal what you're going to teach me

I am ignorant when it comes to one truth
all that you are and how we've remained so apart
and I bet you've got a "them" to learn from too
like me, you're a slave to what's familiar to you

all the while never knowing what you really like
is disliking one thing and disregarding the rest
did you know you can buy a country in a can?
yes you can any land, homogenized and bland

like all of the dykes and fags of today
buying up five thousand rainbows
so we can stash truth away
inside aluminum and tin
never mixing again
all the dairy on one side
and hating the beefeaters' sin

you see they just don't know
you see they just don't know
you see, they just can't know
so what's wrong with helping them grow?

why must it all be some kind of tv dinner tray
i don't want your peas in my potatoes
you're not me...

so go away

no no hey!

i didn't mean it that way!

no no stay!

maybe it's not my day
eloquence decided to fillet

tell you what, let's try art
since we are so far apart
i'll start before you depart
let me show you my heart

because

sometimes singing a song
or painting a picture
or writing a phrase
or holding a hand
on the strand
in this grand land
will do

and sometimes it's best
to just be me and you