Why do the other guys talk so seriously
Around the girls who walk mysteriously?
What have they got to hide?
Why should they take a side?
Why do I wander so deliriously?
What makes the world seem like a big round ball
When all that’s up is just what’s bound to fall?
Why all this dealing fear?
Why, passed dopwn through the years?
I thought, for once, we’d gotten passed it all.
CHORUS:
But everybody’s striving for confirmation
Every road will not dead-end
Everybody hides behind a friend
What have they got to hide?
Why should they take a side?
Why do I wander so deliriously?
What makes the world seem like a big round ball
When all that’s up is just what’s bound to fall?
Why all this dealing fear?
Why, passed dopwn through the years?
I thought, for once, we’d gotten passed it all.
CHORUS:
But everybody’s striving for confirmation
Every road will not dead-end
Everybody hides behind a friend
Where do the people go when they’ve gone too far?
What do you say when they ask you who you are?
You say, “I’m just an average Joe and if you’ve got to know
I’ve got an average wife and an average car.”
CHORUS
Everybody hides behind a friend.
words & music by Brad Riesau
©1984 Brad Riesau / v32unes
original 4-track version released on BRAD RIESAU – v32unes
rtRECORDS v32-001 (cassette only) / released 12/25/84
From the original liner notes: Spliced from a long unsuccessful poem that started as a song, turned into a poem and ended up back as a song, all on three scribbled pages, this was improvised while flipping thru a journal with guitar in hand one night when TJ and I were feeling adventurous. Lyrics (most of them) 1/14/82. Music: later that month.
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