Now I could sit here and baffle you
With shallow babble
And a bunch of punch lines
You probably won't get
Or even use some big words
That you'd have to look up
But I'm not a teacher
So go ahead and close your book up
I could tell a fairy tale so convincing
And keep a straight face from beginning
To happy ending
I could waste 32 bars telling you
how to live
Knowing damn well
I used mtv cribs for the blueprint
I could bore you to death
with my past relationships
Or a little ditty bout Jack and Dianne
Or I could go back to childhood
Dig up them skeletons
And spit them at you
with a catchy hook
Look I could strike a nerve
with some four letter words
That'll make Richard Pryor proud
Or better yet I could sing a jingle
that'll contort and mingle
Every single solitary letter
in the alphabet
I could tell you whatever
you want to hear
But if I just said hello
would you listen to me
I could sell a blind man new ears
If I just said hello
would you listen to me
I'm trying hard trying to make it
perfectly clear
But I'm dying because
their aint nobody listening to me
Been relying on myself on myself
for more than 22 years
And I aint crying
I just need someone to listen to me
Can I get some reply get
maybe some kind of sign
to let me know
that you're listening to me
Just from time to time
I get lost in my mind
Its hard to find someone to listen to me
My ears were open
when you needed some consoling
I'm hoping till the sound
you hear echoes
Every time I say hello
I could talk about my duds
And my thrift store scores
But that probably wouldn't interest you
But why should it
I mean I've seen a lot of shit in 22 years
But your feet in my shoes
isn't something I recall
And I've been known to drink 22 beers
Before a show cuz
otherwise I probably
wouldn't have the balls
I could make references to books
I never read
For the sake of sounding conscious
But that's just obnoxious
I could take off these bandages and
Expose these papercuts
And put them in the air
with both my middle fingers up
or talk about myself in third person
like I'm better than you
cuz there's nothing else better to do
I could attack your character from
Eighty different angles
Cleverly explaining exactly
how wack you are
But why do that when
it's a well known fact
you buying this cd is potentially
feeding me come on
I could tell you whatever
you want to hear
But if I just said hello
would you listen to me
I could sell a blind man new ears
If I just said hello
would you listen to me
I'm trying hard trying to
make it perfectly clear
But I'm dying because
their aint nobody listening to me
Been relying on myself on myself
for more than 22 years
And I aint crying
I just need someone to listen to me
Can I get some reply get
maybe some kind of sign
to let me know that you're listening to me
Just from time to time
I get lost in my mind
Its hard to find someone to listen to me
My ears were open when
you needed some consoling
I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes
Every time I say hello
Hello is there anybody out there
Hello is there anybody out there
Hello is there anybody out there
Hello is there anybody out there
Hello is there anybody out there