Artist: The Peter Malick Group and Norah Jones Album: New York City (2003) Title: Things You Don't Have To Do
Lyrics Things You Don't Have To DoI walk down the diamond studded
concrete canyon
Nobody looked me in the eye
Tried to fly to the moon
Only made it to the sky
I was looking for, looking for
I couldn't find a friend
Searching for a clear connection
Without a digital send
Ain't it just a little scary sometimes
To find the lies that you
know to be true
I'll find you smiling about
Things you don't have to do
Bill doesn't call me anymore
I hear he's found religion
He's watching Benny Hinn with a
Big haired blonde apprentice
beautician
And all the words and gesticulations
that came before
Don't seem to mean a thing
You can feel fine to drop a dime
If you're ever hanging by a string
Ain't it just a little scary sometimes
To find the lies that you
know to be true
I'll find you smiling about
Things you don't have to do
I hear voices crying out
Echoes on the boulevard
Contentious rambling
incantations
Of some senile bard
There's too much going
on around here
To keep my head from spinning
And this constant acceleration
Blurs any ties to the beginning
Ain't it just a little scary sometimes
To find the lies that you
know to be true
I'll find you smiling about
Things you don't have to do |