Tytuł: Where The Zero Meets The Fifteen

• Wykonawca: Five Iron Frenzy
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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't 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't know what to do,
  down at Colfax and Broadway.
  
  Now the man with no shoes on,
  says I don't 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't stand to see yousuffer,
  I try to intellectualize,
  a formula to end you pain,
  it doesn't work,
  God knows I've tried.
  Sometimes my cup is overfilled.
  Sometimes I'm too afraid that I'm going to spill.