Michael Penn - By The Book - Текст песни

Always been horseblinded

Could never see

Past the two shades on the periphery

I ask you for mercy

And beg clemency

But something I'm feeling is sticking with me


When you're all alone

And I am not around

I know that you think me

As cold as the ground

I don't play accordion, we disagree

But something I'm thinking is sticking with me


	If this ain't by the book then the book must be wrong

	And maybe it is what you hoped all along

	Now you didn't think I would go quietly

	When something about you is sticking with me


This person I've been wasn't me I surmise

You know me too well

You'd see through a disguise

Someone must have cloned a facsimile

And it bears repeating "sticking with me"


They're cutting the bull 

And they're drinking its blood

Show me a patriot

Show me a scud

And that's about all I can get from TV

and there's still this feeling sticking with me


	If this ain't by the book then the book must be wrong

	Can't we sleep in

	You can wake me at dawn

	We'll start us a regular royal dynasty

	So long as you are only sticking with me