Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel a Lot Better - Steve Taylor

Enter the young idealist

Chasing dragons to slay

Exit the hustler

Packing up his M.B.A

Freshmen scream in a classroom

Was there a sound?

First degree in the vacuum

I’m on college ground

Took a class

Big fun

Modern ethics 101

First day learn why

Ethics really don’t apply

Prof says, «One trait

Takes us to a higher state

Drug free, pure bliss

Get your pencils, copy this:

«Life unwinds like a cheap sweater

But since I gave up hope I feel a lot better

And the truth gets blurred like a wet letter

But since I gave up hope I feel a lot better»

Top of the class sits Ernest

He was brightest and best

Till the professor lured him

To the hopeless nest

Now he lives for the shortcut

Like a citizen should

Tells the class with a wink

«only the young die good.»

He says, «Ideals?

Uncouth

Fatalism needs youth

Eat well, floss right

Keep the hungry out of sight

Save face--nip and tuck

Praise yourself and pass the buck

Don’t forget the best advice

Everybody’s get a price

«Life unwinds like a cheap sweater

But since I gave up hope I feel a lot better

And the truth gets blurred like a wet letter

But since I gave up hope I feel a lot better

«While the world winds down to a final prayer

Nothing soothes quicker than complete despair

I predict by dinner I won’t even care

Since I gave up hope I feel a lot better»

Nazis plead in a courtroom

«Pardon me, boys»

Profits fall in a boardroom

Did they make a noise?

Someone spreads an affliction

Company’s nice

Someone sells an addiction

Puts your soul on ice

Half wits knock heads

Candidates in double beds

Good guys defect

«I can’t precisely recollect»

Teacher’s pet theory’s fine

If you’re born without a spine

Can’t you spell wrong?

Sing it to him Papa John