Wish List

Mom and dad, can't remember if I told you
 How glad I am I finally got to know you
 Years from when we met
 After I left home
 Let me sing you sweet and distant fictions
 On lonely nights you will lay and listen
 If you don't like it
 Wait until I fix it
 Then morning comes and cops invade my conscience
 I run around the house, a heated atom
 Can't foresee the outcome
 You can lean to one side
 If I ever I should seem to take for granted
 This lovely life that I have been handed
 Darling, don't just stand there
 Come knock me around
 'Cause I know I can write my way out of this
 Black hole, back to all the things that I miss
 Sometimes I wonder if I even exist
 Add another line to my wish list
 The overview is not the same as going through
 The present joy and all it took to come to this
 To know the ending
 Would be pretending
 They took my words and wrote them off as passing
 It pissed me off enough to keep me writing
 Go make your living, boy
 I'll go in fighting
 'Cause I know I can write my way out of this
 Black hole, back to all the things that I miss
 You stay digging at your own little ditch
 That's just another thing on my wish list
 If I should slide over and under
 You know I just might
 Stay 'til I get it right
 Some people say I'm corny or I'm morbid
 I always thought I was touching, I was tragic
 One man's magic
 Is another's plastic
 Well, which one is it, am I sweetness, am I sickness?
 If I say both, you will say I lack commitment
 Of course, you're right
 Of course I'm right
 But I know I can write my way out of this
 Black hole, back to all the things that I miss
 Sometimes I don't even know you exist
 That's just another thing on my wish list