My Private Nation

Why you gotta treat me like I'm a low-down dirty?

Climbin' up on 30

Dress like a kid to make me feel young punk

And talk junk, you must've fell out of your bunk

And smacked your head, or your face, or somethin'

I don't need, nobody flyin' in my jet stream

Take the bus, go on, and get yourself your own dream

'Cause this is my own life, keepin' me down

Where I wanna be in my private nation

I'm alone, all thinkin' life's a phone call

Here for just a while when in my private nation

You can ride, or you can go

Why you gotta step on shoes

When you don't know who's been in 'em?

Have you ever been more than a bump

On a rock that likes to roll

In the middle of a soup bowl in the sky?

Use your eyes, it's all you've got 'til you die

I don't need, nobody flyin' in my jet stream

Take the bus, go on, and get yourself your own dream

'Cause this is my own life, keepin' me down

Where I wanna be in my private nation

I'm alone, all thinkin' life's a phone call

Here for just a while when in my private nation

You can ride on, it ain't free

Leave a light on so you can see

How to get back when you go

How to get, how to give, how to make ends meet

How to lose, how to win, how to stay on the seat

How to use momentum to make the two wheels straight

How to wait, after it feels like you waited so long

And I don't need, nobody flyin' in my jet stream

Take the bus, go on, and get yourself your own dream

'Cause this is my own life, keepin' me down

Where I wanna be in my private nation

I'm alone, all thinkin' life's a phone call

Here for just a while when in my private nation, yeah

This is my own life, keepin' me down

Where I wanna be in my generation, yeah

I'm alone, all thinkin' life's a phone call

Here for just a while when in my private nation

You can ride on, it ain't free (it ain't free)

Leave a light on so you can see

How to get back