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if I could travel in time
I'd drink liquor in the twenties
I'd bootleg some booze
to make money like Gatsby
the thirties would fall
and I'd always be depressed
living on government
water and bread
I'd drag through the forties
might be rather boring
but join in the worldwide
innocence mourning
the fifties would come
and I'd be on a bus
when this women won't giver her seat
up

if I could travel in time
I'd sing peace in the sixties
I'd hitchhike on highways
and drop acid with the hippies
the seventies would burn
with a heroin addiction
I might not meet thirty
but it'd be an adventure
I'd dance in the eighties
do coke at the rock show
there's sure as hell no avoiding
that hair manifesto
the nineties I'd be
on prescribed ecstasy
living a century of dream

I'll never be
what they expect me to be
and I'm not sorry

then if I was a Christian
I'd beg for forgiveness
always avoiding some fiery darkness
I could practice Islam
give praise to Mohammed
memorize the Quran
always be praying to Allah
I could be a Jew
and I'd find the real Jesus
I'd grow out some curls
like my fellow Hebrews
I could be a Hindu
re-live a million lives
but I still would not once get it right

but I'm still a kid
in the midst of my twenties
my country's at war
weaponizing economies
and all these nosy people
all in everybody's business
restricting our views
with their bills and their protest
see who gives a shit!
if you want to get married
regardless of sex
that shouldn't matter to anybody
we lose all the money
they waste fighting against drugs
cuz we always find ways 'round your laws!

oh yeah I'll never be
what they expect me to be
and I'm not sorry
I won't ever be sorry

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from Sing​-​a​-​longs for Sinking Ships, released January 28, 2017

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