Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

I thought I'd start this simple song

with something you could sing along

 like "Na na na na na na."

 But then I felt a bit cliche-

 I started Beaten Path that way-

 and besides, it didn't get me very far

I guess the well is running dry.

(I'm not surprised)

It's been thirteen years of lies.

Running at the mouth about

these lovers I can't live without,

 well, I'm not exactly huntin' 'em down

Down and out and overweight -

under the influence of three years straight

drinking on the job.

If it's not some love affair

 then it's a song about the great despair

 of the loner at the end of the bar.

 Well, you are what you are

 You are what your are,

 you are, you are,

 you do, you do -

"Na na na na na na"

One-hundredth verse same as the first,

I'm a dictaphone of drunken slurs,

 press rewind - it's a new album.

 "Hot off the press, and this guy sounds depressed

  (again)!"

 So, you can never drop this drunken bit

 or the fits of pain you still stomach -

 it's for the love of the song

 Oh yeah, the song. Oh yeah, the song.

 I thought it was... I thought it was supposed to be a... a sing along.

and so on...