Where The Zero Meets The Fifteen lyrics

Song information

Artist: Five Iron Frenzy
Album: Upbeats & Beatdowns

Lyrics

My car broke down in arizona
Have to ride the bus again
At ten-o-clock on tuesday night
With thirteen cents and a broken pen
I put my backpack on the bench
Tell two people I don? smoke
See the cop across the street
He thinks that I am selling dope
I could have walked another block
To get away from the scene
Why does it always come to this
Where zero meets fifteen?

And so I gave my thirteen cents
To the man who peed his pants
He passes out and falls on me
I watch my change fall from his hand
I see the lady next to me
Holds her baby black blue
The junkie gutter-punks keeps asking
Where I got my new tattoo
What does it matter anyway
Thirteen cents or all I own?
How can I ever save the world
On cup-o-soup and student loans?

I want to try and save the world
But it never goes that way
God I don? know what to do
Down at colfax and broadway

Now the man with no shoes on
Says I don? know how to play
He says I fumble all the time
He thinks that I am john elway
I put my face down in my hands
Water wells inside my eyes
What do I have to give them?
Does it matter if I try?
I can? stand to see yousuffer
I try to intellectualize
A formula to end you pain
It doesn? work
God knows i?e tried
Sometimes my cup is overfilled
Sometimes i? too afraid that i? going to spill

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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