[00:00.85]Now I could sit here and baffle you
[00:02.97]With shallow babble
[00:04.48]And a bunch of punch lines
[00:06.32]You probably won't get
[00:07.83]Or even use some big words
[00:09.92]That you'd have to look up
[00:11.80]But I'm not a teacher
[00:13.27]So go ahead and close your book up
[00:15.31]I could tell a fairy tale so convincing
[00:17.63]And keep a straight face from beginning
[00:21.26]To happy ending
[00:22.70]I could waste 32 bars telling you how to live
[00:26.10]Knowing damn well I used
[00:27.58]Mtv cribs for the blueprint
[00:28.61]I could bore you to death
[00:31.21]With my past relationships
[00:32.39]Or a little ditty bout Jack and Dianne
[00:36.34]Or I could go back to childhood
[00:38.86]Dig up them skeletons
[00:40.77]And spit them at you with a catchy hook
[00:43.22]Look I could strike a nerve
[00:45.78]With some four letter words
[00:47.68]That'll make Richard Pryor proud
[00:49.61]Or better yet I could sing a
[00:51.70]Jingle that'll contort and mingle
[00:54.17]Every single solitary letter in the alphabet
[00:56.63]I could tell you whatever you want to hear
[00:59.92]But if I just said hello would you listen to me
[01:02.13]I could sell a blind man new ears
[01:03.71]If I just said hello would you listen to me
[01:05.60]I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear
[01:07.17]But I'm dying because their
[01:08.13]Ain't nobody listening to me
[01:08.99]Been relying on myself on
[01:09.93]Myself for more than 22 years
[01:11.12]And I ain't crying I just need
[01:12.37]Someone to listen to me
[01:13.22]Can I get some reply get
[01:14.22]Maybe some kind of sign
[01:15.14]To let me know that you're listening to me
[01:16.78]Just from time to time I get lost in my mind
[01:18.67]Its hard to find someone to listen to me
[01:20.24]My ears were open when
[01:21.10]You needed some consoling
[01:21.73]I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes
[01:22.99]Every time I say hello
[01:28.43]I could talk about my duds
[01:30.00]And my thrift store scores
[01:31.94]But that probably wouldn't interest you
[01:33.75]But why should it
[01:35.36]I mean I've seen a lot of sh*t in 22 years
[01:38.54]But your feet in my shoes
[01:40.38]Isn't something I recall
[01:42.21]And I've been known to drink 22 beers
[01:45.56]Before a show cuz
[01:46.97]Otherwise I probably wouldn't have the balls
[01:49.42]I could make references to books I never read
[01:53.10]For the sake of sounding conscious
[01:54.44]But that's just obnoxious
[01:56.89]I could take off these bandages and
[01:58.72]Expose these papercuts
[02:00.36]And put them in the air
[02:01.63]With both my middle fingers up
[02:03.71]Or talk about myself in third person
[02:05.81]Like I'm better than you
[02:07.24]Cuz there's nothing else better to do
[02:10.31]I could attack your character from
[02:12.63]Eighty different angles
[02:14.20]Cleverly explaining exactly how wack you are
[02:18.00]But why do that when it's a well known fact
[02:21.17]You buying this cd is potentially feeding me
[02:23.74]Come on
[02:25.43]I could tell you whatever
[02:26.40]You want to hear
[02:27.07]But if I just said hello
[02:27.92]Would you listen to me
[02:28.70]I could sell a blind man new ears
[02:29.91]If I just said hello would you listen to me
[02:31.57]I'm trying hard trying to
[02:32.52]Make it perfectly clear
[02:33.13]But I'm dying because their
[02:34.03]Ain't nobody listening to me
[02:34.99]Been relying on myself on
[02:36.07]Myself for more than 22 years
[02:37.05]And I ain't crying I just need
[02:38.34]Someone to listen to me
[02:39.35]Can I get some reply get
[02:40.34]Maybe some kind of sign
[02:41.18]To let me know that you're listening to me
[02:42.63]Just from time to time I get lost in my mind
[02:44.34]Its hard to find someone to listen to me
[02:45.76]My ears were open when
[02:46.69]You needed some consoling
[02:47.37]I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes
[02:48.74]Every time I say hello
[03:19.22]Hello is there anybody out there
[03:26.11]Hello is there anybody out there
[03:33.40]Hello is there anybody out there
[03:40.49]Hello is there anybody out there
[03:47.55]Hello is there anybody out there