Big Brother

Lyrics

Keep the lights in the kitchen on You get custody in the summer months, hooray Find happiness in a can First one, then two, then three, then four, then five, then- Well first I am drinking And then I am driving And I need to get home Before I start cryin' (Jesus fucking Christ!) Musta gotten lost on the way back In the city and the mountains In the city and the trees I know I'm a long way gone from out-of-state Even longer trip back to in-state Air conditioner in my car is broken I gotta fix it With two thousand dollars That's more than I made all summer That's more than I made all summer But your big, big brother's gonna change the way that we see the world tonight He will take us to the mall, drop us off by the ice rink Near the food court and the Dick's Sporting Goods store Near the Starbucks where I had my first cup of coffee Everything was going so perfect Everything was going so well Until everyone up and decided they were more important than anyone else And now you wonder why you're homeless and friendless And searching for a job Burning bridges to keep warm for the summer Makin' friends just to cut them off And now I am pouring money into textbooks and fixing my car So I can leave this state comfortably Learned more life lessons in the past couple days Than in the time it took me to turn twenty But I wouldn't have gone out tonight If I'd only known That the firing squads would keep you at home 'Cause nothing says lock your doors and stay inside Like a bullet to the leg And I probably wouldn't have come here If I had been properly informed Of the consequences of drivin' drunk in a rainstorm But your big, big brother's gonna change the way that we see the world tonight He will take us to the mall, drop us off by the ice rink Near the food court and the Dick's Sporting Goods store Near the Starbucks where I had my first cup of coffee