Caricature
when I was born
I was so small
they wheeled me in the carriage
up and down the hospital halls
and they said I was the best
that I was perfect
'cause I was just like all the rest
caricature (and that made sense)
caricature (and so I promptly soiled my pants)
caricature (and then I fell into a trance)
and when I was a young boy
going to public school
the teacher said 'hey, boy, what is 2 & 2?'
well, I thought about that some
and I said '4'
and she said 'boy, there's no limit to how far you can
go'
caricature (and that made sense, you know)
caricature (points for doing what I'm told)
caricature (like a balm for the soul)
and when I left the confines
of my protected world
I found myself engaged
in mortal combat with the world
I went to school to
learn to shake the money tree
but now I'm lost at sea
caricature (and that made dollars and sense)
caricature (to soil some more expensive pants)
caricature (now I've been running ever since)
it doesn't matter
let it go
now I'm going out the highway
out route 29
to see what I can see or find out that I'm blind
I'm going out the
byways
where no two are the same
where they don't know my number but they'll know my name
caricature (because my number's really long)
caricature (even longer than this song)
caricature (so, hey, listen)
I'm not your caricature
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