Go Outside & Drive

Go Outside & Drive - Blues Traveler

I 've really got to clean up my room

You know its been so long

Since i've seen my floor

It's getting kind of scary in fact i suspect

That when i finally clear away

I won't know her anymore

How we'll have grown so far apart

From those early days

With the fresh new start

So in the end it won't matter at all

So why should i bother

With the rise and the fall

So i quietly lay back down

And watch tv

But these are the things we tell ourselves

Eventual stories designed to amuse

It's a game we play and we play it well

In fact we're so damn good

That we try to lose

So we can keep hiding

So we can survive

And keep on believing

Someday we'll go outside & drive

Gonna go outside & drive

I have resolved not to leave my house

Till my floor comes back

And my room is clean

So i'm really kind of glad

That my tv's here

While i concoct my plan to fulfill my dream

Now won't that be wonderful

When i'll finally be done

You know i just can't wait for it

Then i'll start to have fun

It's getting hard lately to concentrate

All my appointments cancelled

Cause i'm horribly late

You know i think i need a prison

In order to dream of being free

But these are the things we tell ourselves

Eventual stories designed to amuse

It's a game we play and we play it well

In fact we're so damn good

That we try to lose

So we can keep hiding

So we can survive

And keep on believing

Someday we'll go outside & drive

Now weeks have gone by

And my room's not done

In fact i could say

That it's gotten much worse

Amongst the crumpled letters

The mood's quite perverse

But i got a new tv with a remote control

Styrofoam and instructions fill the hole

Where i once cleared a path

Where i once blazed a trail

To the bathroom but i fear that a nail

Is buried there no so i step very rarely

And try not to get out of bed

You know tomorrow i'll get up

And i'll walk out my door

And life will return to the way that it was

But i think i'm getting sick

I'd better give it a day

It mustn't get a foothold

But it usually does

So i'll sit right here till i'm old and gray

I need my rest after all i'm wasting away

And i just saw a cockroach crawl

Out of my sneaker

I think he's biding his time

Till i get somewhat weaker

Things could still turn out alright

As long as i'm not dead

As long as i'm

I'm i'm not

I'm not dead no i'm not dead

But these are the things we tell ourselves

Eventual stories designed to amuse

It's a game we play and we play it well

In fact we're so damn good

That we try to lose

So we can keep hiding

So we can survive

And keep on believing

Someday we'll go outside & drive

Gonna go outside & drive