Chip On My Shoulder - The Weather Station

You can have anything you could ever be wanting

The country will give you your fill

I took their advice and I did what they told me

Taking my turn as the shill

Oh this chip on my shoulder

I know it so well, sure as the backs of my hands

I try to be gracious, for all its demands

As gentle and kind as I can

Oh all of them loved me because I was empty

And they saw in me something they could feed

'Cause we’re overflowing, recklessly growing

And the power comes from the need

But for this chip on my shoulder

I could have enjoyed their slipperyhoneyed embrace

With gifts I would be showered, if I don’t disappoint

But I couldn’t keep to my place

Oh I spoke to my sisters and the child of a friend

But no promises could I keep

Stay always emboldened and don’t reach for that crown

But it’s a want that goes down so deep

Guess I could have had anything

But I didn’t want nothing in the end that wasn’t tied down

And I don’t think that it matters to me so much as them

I’ll tell not a soul what I found