Scatman John - Quiet Desperation Lyrics
You're sitting on a milk mornin' noon and nightFantisizin' the American dreamYou're lookin' pretty good and you've got yourself convicedThat the nightmare isn't a s bad as it seemsYou try your best to hide yourself beneath your turned up collarAnd a plastic bag is all you've got to showAnd your books inside your shopping cartIs probably the best education you're ever gonna know (Hmm)The guy in the Mercedes is just hard on with the dollarBetter grab it 'cause the signal's turnin' greenAnd while you're at it put the jug behind the picket fence'Cause the copper's driving past you lookin' meanInstitution,contribution,restitution,destitutionDoesn't mean a thing to you nowYou're the freeway featureFor your audience are driving bySo maybe you should stand and take a bowYour living in desperationAnd you never have felt completeYou live in anticipationOf another day on the street,sing with me(Scatting by Scatman John)You're sitting in the same spotYou want to go homeBut there ain't no home but home on the rangeYou've forgotten what you look like and it looks like you've forgottenThat the look inside your eye is very strangeAin't nothing left to hideYou're stripped of all your pride and all you feel insideIs a hole a mile wideYou're the freedom desperadoAnd the perfect living modelOf a land that hasn't any good excuseYour living in desperationAnd you never have felt completeYou live in anticipationOf another day on the street,sing with me(Scatting by Scatman John)Sittin' on your milkcrate ,blanket wrapped around youI see you sitting day after dayI really like to talk but I know if I approached youYou'd probably get up and walk awayYou're wishin' that your home of the American dreamWasn't only smoke and exhaustI love you desperado and all I gotta sayYou let me know how much I really lostYour living in desperationAnd you never have felt completeYou live in anticipationOf another day on the street,sing with me(Scatting by Scatman John)Your living in desperationAnd you never have felt completeYou live in anticipationOf another day on the street,sing with me(Scatting by Scatman John)(Fade out
