Hitchhiker's Guide

Before you say a word I should tell you that I've heard it all before

And you should probably save your breath

Your feelings of disgust, your thinly veiled mistrust

My friends have lectured me to death

The people on the news predicted he would lose

And this was never part of anybody's thoughts

But something must have gave, or someone must have caved

'Cause now he's up there and they're calling all the shots

And now most everyone's been taking turns at pointing out the flaws

Accusing us of sabotage and fracturing the cause

With fingers pointing everywhere and flapping of the jaws

I just avert my eyes and take the abuse

In social situations I keep mostly to myself

'Cause no one wants to hear about my failing mental health

And party conversation, I just keep it on the shelf

'Cause I've discovered it's of very little use

And now I'm here

Stopped at the red light

Watching the headlights

And what if it's all a trick that I fell for

It's happened before more times than I would care to own up to

And I don't know about you

But I've been getting so tired

Of holding out my thumb for salvation

The indication is that no one really feels like slowing down

I listen to the Clash, I separate my trash

I'm pretty vocal when I feel like things are getting out of hand

But nothing that I do is ever getting through

And I just wonder if nobody understands at all

The revolution won't be televised 'cause television's free

And no one's really sure just what the price is going to be

We're slowly going broke, our scene's become a joke

For coked-up funnymen and everyone but me

I like to think that what we had was more than just a fad

That it was rooted in some bigger kind of truth

But friends just shake their heads, make jokes about the Dead

And tell me that they used to think the same things in their youth

I'm stopped at the red light

Watching for headlights

And what if it's all a trick that I fell for

It's happened before more times than I would care to own up to

And I don't know about you

But I've been getting so tired

Of holding out my thumb for salvation

The indication is that no one really feels like slowing down