Like Life
© James A Daulton 2008

I hope when they make a movie about my life
In it you’re the one who plays my wife
And we have three kids with pretty names
Who are smart and nice and not ugly
I’ve been fucked up since the first grade
Got fat cause Sega’s the only sport I played
Peed my pants in the grade before
Teacher said Help!, I can’t swim
So I got from grades 0 to about 16
And Facebook apps say I wasn’t that mean
And if I went back to high school next year
I still wouldn’t be cool enough, no

[But, hey, they say aspire to
Things that really challenge you
But when everything comes easy
Hard’s a challenge just to find
That makes me sound like a douche bag
Honestly, life tends to just be bad
Close your eyes, shut your mouth
Love the one you love the most
You love the most]

At the age of 20 I have learned a lot
Like hey kids don’t you smoke that pot
Everything you’ve done till now is shit
And everything you do will still be
Nothing means nothing, no nothing at all
The more you make, the more you fall
You try so hard to control your life
And you find out at that you just suck
But don’t feel bad, no one can do that
Take it from me I’ve been skinny and fat
So that makes me a worldly man
Or at least someone with stretch marks

[But, hey, they say aspire to
Things that really challenge you
But when everything comes so easy
Hard’s a challenge just to find
That makes me sound like a douche bag
Honestly, life tends to just be bad
Close your eyes, shut your mouth
Love the one you love the most
You love the most]

If you feel compelled to just create
Chances are you’re probably too late
You know how hard it is to write a song
That doesn’t sound like a remix
My life advice would be just love hard
And I mean really really hard
Like a ten on the diamond scale
And that’s enough to cut you, fool
Just like life, half of this rhymes
And it’s sung in rhythmic time
The other half is all over the place
The other half is more like life

[But, hey, they say aspire to
Things that really challenge you
But when everything comes so easy
Hard’s a challenge just to find
That makes me sound like a douche bag
Honestly, life tends to just be bad
Close your eyes, shut your mouth
Love the one you love the most
You love the most]