What do You Want From Yourself

Happy-go-lucky in the afternoon

I can do anything I want when I'm with you

It’s how I spent my thirty-seven years around the Sun

In thirty-three more, I’ll be an old woman

Sitting out the back with a beer in my hand

I like the cold of the can

What do you want from yourself?

What do I want? I want to be what I wanted to be in 1993

When it would snow a dozen times in January

And we’d grab our sleds and go to Albemarle

And we would fly down

Fly down

Fly down

When do you learn that your skin is not as thick as you thought?

When all you thought you had, you lost?

The mornings start to slip away

Sooner or later, you’re gonna catch yourself in the glass

Looking hard-lived and middle class

You smile at the cracks in the pane

What do you want from yourself? What do you want?

What do I want? I want to be what I wanted to be in 1993

When it would snow a dozen times in January

And we’d grab our sleds and go to Albemarle

And we would fly down

Fly down

Fly

It all comes down to who got a head start

And who’s running with a bum leg

The coffee’s hot now

How do you like your eggs, sir? Do you like eggs?

If nobody asks you, do you have a choice?

Your word’s your will’s your way’s your voice

I'm tryin’ to hear you through the noise

What do you want from yourself?

What do you want?

What do you want?

What do I want? I want to be what I wanted to be in 1993

When it would snow a dozen times in January

And we’d grab our sleds and go to Albemarle

And we would fly down

Fly down

Fly

Happy-go-lucky in the afternoon

I can be anything I want when I'm with you

It’s where I’ll spend my days until they’re done