Hey, Asshole (feat. Kate Nash)

Hey, asshole

See the sun is shining

But you are not smiling

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

I'm an asshole

Cause the sun is shining

But I am not smiling

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

I know I'm often told

That there's a pot of gold

But I don't see a fucking rainbow and my coffee's cold

I know I should be grateful

I know I'm good and able

But I don't have the strength to get up from the kitchen table

This kind of shot comes once

Another opportunity of a lifetime just slipped away

And that's the fifth this month

but when you take a punch

Don't you ever forget

Why you get up and you put one foot in front of the next

Got the power of my will

I don't needa to win a mil

But I'm looking at window sill

Gotta take a bitter pill

Gonna pay for what I did to my head

and my heart'll foot the bill

Got a foot in my mouth and because

I'm kicking myself I developed

A habit of knocking out my front tooth

Looking uncouth

want to hear the truth

Give it to me straight

151 proof

Telling myself it'll happen when I'm happy

But I'm climbing up a ladder that has got no end

Hung up on a rung I'll never make it to the top

I'm looking at the bottom and I must descend

All I want to do is buck this trend

Everybody need a buck to spend

And I'll be working on myself, til I work on someone else

Til I get there Ima just pretend

I know I'm often told

That there's a pot of gold

But I don't see a fucking rainbow and my coffee's cold

I know I should be grateful

I know I'm good and able

But I don't have the strength to get up from the kitchen table

This kind of shot comes once

Another opportunity of a lifetime just slipped away

And that's the fifth this month

but when you take a punch

Don't you ever forget

Why you get up and you put one foot in front of the next

Hey, asshole

See the sun is shining

But you are not smiling

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

I'm an asshole

Cause the sun is shining

But I am not smiling

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

When I'm in a crisis

In a moment of silence

I look under my eyelids

And I'm checking my mileage

I been using a pool of water as a mirror but not for style it's

So I can reach in and pimpslap

my reflection for acting childish

Spent a half an hour sitting at the bottom of my shower

letting the water run over my body and

(dammit I wanted to get up)

But I didn't have the power

I don't have the answer anyway yay (yay yay yay)

Don't want to panic but I got to come clean

because the plan of the planet is just mean

Knew if was tough, but dammit it's obscene

I been huffing and puffing up to the top of the summit

And I'ma rough it if I have enough steam

I'll keep on coming and coming until

I'm coming with the stamina of a salmon

Who's heading upstream nah nah nah nah nah

Hey, asshole

See the sun is shining

But you are not smiling

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

I'm an asshole

Cause the sun is shining

But I am not smiling

And I don't know why

And I don't know why

And I don't know why