"High" (song lyrics -- all critique welcome)

[voxmystic]

High

{Verse 1:}
Mama tried to tell me
Back in the day
She only showed me the straight
And narrow way
She said I'd get ahead
If I just play
By the rules
Gotta don't hear
Don't see
Don't speak
Just agree
But I did not fit
Polite society
And I did not quit
Flouting propriety, I
Will not submit
Because I never quite
Acquired a taste for shit.

{Chorus:}
I don't wave no flags
Don't pay no taxes
Ain't got school spirit
Ain't got no license
Gonna make my own
Mind up, and we're
Gonna get real
High up in here
No hesitation, no fear,
No pretense.

{Verse 2:}
Just so you know, I
Might be so bold
To nearly never wanna
Do what I'm told
Nobody asked me when they
Wrote up the code
They shoulda knowed
That's a dumb game
I won't play
I won't pay
I won't obey. Ar-
Bitrary law
Got no authority o-
Ver me at all
My conscience follows me where-
Ever I go
And tells me everything I'll
Ever need to know.

{Chorus:}

{Bridge:}
High
Climb up
There's a view from the mountaintop
And the scurry below
Is so small and so slow from so-o
Way up on
High
Up above the causes
Above the laws
Above it all because

{Chorus:}

{Tag:}
Gonna make my own
Mind up and we're
Gonna get real
High up in here
Gonna get real
High up in here
Gonna get real
Hi-i-i-igh!

 

[Franklin Waters]

That was incredible. Honestly. I loved the first verse. It perfectly described the bohemian "outside-the-box" lifestyle.

"Flouting propriety, I
Will not submit
Because I never quite
Acquired a taste for shit."

LOVE IT.

Keep writing man, this is awesome.

 

[voxmystic]

thank you so much! my ego is stroked for the day!

it's obviously meant to be heard, not read, and it loses a lot in the translation. but i had to post it here anyway, because last month when my band played a solstice gig, we were asked not to do this one. seems the idea of not paying taxes was more offensive to the bar owner than the implied drug use. but i thought it might be right up the bl alley

 

[Franklin Waters]

Ha, totally.