Friends Back East

(album: Etc. - 2002)

Welcome to your new home
Here's your bed, you'll sleep alone
Getting everything you wanted
Getting everything you wanted and some

Here's the kitchen, cook alone
Look at the water boil
At the table, sit and stare
Soup with bread with so much to care for

All my friends back east keep asking
"What have you done with your life?"
Just a little too strung out to lie

Suddenly, it seems so clear
Rejecting what you can't have
Light a candle, smoke and pray
All good sins will find you, one day
Now another month is gone
Soon, it will be a year
Go to bed and say out loud
"Is it over where it's all gone wrong?"

All my friends back east keep asking
"What have you done with your life?"
Just a little too strung out to lie

My ambition keeps getting in the way
When I found my voice, there's nothing left to say
Inhibition keeps me behind this door
My life's a running joke
What am I?
What am I running for?