Cynical

You knew me pretty well

But I never let you see my dark side

So it's perfectly appropriate

That I'm careening down the highway

Screaming at the top of my lungs

Praying for the courage to do something reckless

Well a short hiatus of perceived bliss

I guess it's back to courting the grey cloud I used to love

Oh but you don't deserve the satisfaction

Of being the one who pushed me over the edge

So tone it down a notch

Just a six-pack and some cigarettes

And I'm stumbling in the street looking something pitiful

Like the old cat you put out she looked bewildered

For a while but she's getting meaner by the minute

Well I said she's getting meaner by the minute

Maybe I'm just angry

For the love songs you murdered mid-verse

Or maybe I'm just angry

'Cause it all fell down for you first

Oh 'cause it all fell down for you first

Well would it all be so easy

If you had to look me straight into the eye

Oh if I were there now to contradict

All the pretty stories you tell to justify yourself?

Well now I find it hard to believe

You don't have a thing to say to me

You don't write, you don't call

You're just getting cruel and we're both getting petty

I want my twenty bucks and my black shirt

Oh you better be happy, you better be happy

Well maybe I'm just angry

For these battered, tainted memories

Or maybe I'm just angry

Because now you feel so free

Well I guess now you feel so free

Well I guess now you feel so

If you think too big or you think too small

It'll lead you down the same road

You'll figure out life rewards the worst in us

Oh you can take and take and take some more

And you'll never get what you deserve

Well this is me at my most cynical

Well now, this is me at my most cynical

And I'm getting meaner by the minute

I said I'm getting meaner by the minute

Well I said I'm getting meaner by the minute

Well you knew me pretty well

But I never let you see my dark side