sometimes I wish that I could
get a job, make some money
then I could take you out to eat
and pay, wouldn't that be funny, ha?
what would your parents do
if I started courting you
got a haircut and shaved my face too?
then I could take you home

sometimes I wish that I owned stock
in Exxon incorporated
sometimes I wish that I could get
myself back reinstated
in the league of women voters
vice president of General Motors
get me a new car and maybe a boat or two
then I could take you home

tired of being hungry

sometimes I wish that I could
cut an album, make a million
sometimes I wish that I could
turn my bullshit into bullion, ha!
but now I know
ain't much of nowhere to go
just wade on out in the water
and see which way it flows
and call it home

© 1987 GNILSONGS

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