Where Zero Meets Fifteen 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'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.
