LYRICS


I DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS TO MYSELF
(written and recorded 2024)

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old white men keep sayin'
you gotta go through
you gotta go through
(a) great valley of tears
before your life gets
better again

what if you found out
at the end of your life
at the end of your life
most things that you've done
were not the things you
had wanted to do

i'll tell you a secret
i'm enough for myself
society, civilization
it's all the same to me
the emperor has no clothes
it's all fortune cookie wisdom
fortune cookie wisdom

you're tryin' to tell me
what i should will
what i should will
(now) get out of my face
'cause i want to live
self-determined

i don't have to do this
i don't have to do this
to myself

i don't have to do this
i don't have to do this
to myself

marriage and kids
(a) narrow-minded life
(a) narrow-minded life
caged in conventions
my parents i've seen
working like dogs

i'll tell you a secret
i hate sobriety
politics, responsibility
it's all the same to me
the emperor has no clothes
it's all fortune cookie wisdom
fortune cookie wisdom

i step aside
i walk away
is it laziness
is it decadence
is it worldly wisdom
do we lose ourselves
are we pawns in a game
or spoiled rotten brats
why is everything bedeviled

i don't have to do this
i don't have to do this
to myself

i don't have to do this
say why should i do this
to myself

old white men keep sayin'
you can do what you want
can do what you want
but you cannot choose
or select what you want
('cause) we're all constrained

i don't want to be this
i don't want to be this
by myself

i don't have to do this
i don't have to do this
to myself

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