Nothing But Sunshine

Wh... what do you mean what was my childhood like?

What difference does that make?

My childhood was messed up, so what?

Everybody's childhood is messed up

This is the nineties.

You find me one person that had it right

What does that got to do with me rhymin'?

What's left?

Now when my mother died, I had to take it in stride

There ain't room for pride in watching your father cry

And dad made it until maybe a year later

When they found his suicide inside of a grain elevator

Got over it, I had no other opposites or options

Thought about whether or not mom and pop was watching

Never bothered for caution, no time for fear

So my folks care-free for most my early years

And I learned from it, turned nuhhhhh! so many corners

Storm my burning sun waiting for the world to plumb it

Finished growing up under my uncle's roof,

He taught me how to count, all the way up to 100 proof.

>From watching him, I learned how to gather nurishiment

Living off from different women that he had to nurture him

And on the surface I became a normal free teen

More afraid of nuclear war then state my TV stinks

My best friend was my TV, gameshows and cartoons

Subsituted for puppies rainbows and balloons

Now here I am, the shy type

And I think I'm doing all right

Considering what it was like within my life

It's all sunshine, It's nothing but sunshine

It's all sunshine, It's nothing but sunshine

It's nothing but sunshine...

Now it's been 17 summers since I've seen my mother

But every night I see her smile inside my dreams

When I was younger, I didn't actually see the accident happen

But every night I see her smile as if a shadow's against the screens

I can only imagine Dad's internal reaction

Straint, infernal burning baloney his brain

Once it takes to make the man that owns achres of land

Abandon the family plan, he drowns himself in his grains

I'm glad I left that farm in northern Minnesota

Where the time moves slower and the winters are colder

Became a city boy where everybody acts like they hold off

Where they stick to themselves and keep a chip on his shoulder

26 years of age, no longer full of rage

I think it's safe to say that I turned the page of my childhood days

Look Ma! I'm a productive member of society!!

When I'm drunk I make noise, but otherwise I live quietly

And on the weekend I go back up north to reminisce

Remember what it was like pretending to be a kid

Late at night I walk the fields, and lurk in the shadows

to get even with life by murdering cattle

MUHHHHHHHHH... MUHHHHHHHHH...

"Come here, yeah! Come here! Yeah! Yeah!! Uhhhh....

I got sunshiiiiiiiine... on a clouddddddy dayyyyyyy...

when it's cold outsiddddddde... I got a month in Mayyy..."

It's all sunshine, It's nothing but sunshine

It's all sunshine, It's nothing but sunshine

(and I'm gonna be alright, you're gonna be alright

you ain't gotta hold my hand, just walk with me tonight...)

It's nothing but sunshine!

It's nothing but sunshine!!

and I'm gonna be alright

You're gonna be alright

You ain't gotta hold my hand

Just walk with me tonight...