Bethlehem (Album Version)-Paula Cole

[00:23.10]Pulling on the apron strings looking up [00:30.03]Standing on the chair to be grown up [00:33.35]I feel so little, I need my pillow [00:39.10]I hate the time, I hate the clock [00:41.78]I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock [00:44.16]Sunday's pancakes Miss Mary Mack [00:46.72]Color Polariods show my heart attack [00:52.10] [00:54.41]In my second-hand pants and dusty shoes [01:00.29]The day that the playground laughed at my shoes [01:02.97] [01:05.29]It's my birthday next week and what I want please [01:09.85] [01:10.72]Is to turn on the heat so the fish won't freeze [01:14.54] [01:16.22]The fish in the tank froze and died last week [01:19.79] [01:21.41]Oh I want to be a dog or I want to be a leaf [01:26.85] [01:27.85]Quarry miners, fishermen [01:30.85] [01:32.22]In my town of Bethlehem [01:35.47] [01:37.98]Picket fences, church at ten [01:42.91]No star above my Bethlehem [01:45.23] [01:47.91]Now I'm only 16 and I think I have an ulcer [01:52.85] [01:53.79]I'm hiding my *** behind a dirty sweat****rt [01:55.97] [01:59.04]I've lost five pounds these past few days [02:02.85] [02:04.91]Trying to be class president and get straight A's, well, [02:09.98]Who gives a ****t about that anyway? [02:13.29] [02:14.66]I want to be a dog or a lump of clay [02:19.66] [02:21.10]Chorus [02:21.66]Still I'm tired of standing still [02:26.16]Tired of living - still [02:30.16] [02:43.48]Everyday I dream of leaving [02:45.60] [02:50.79]Everybody's talking about Becky's bust [02:52.48] [03:04.41]The boys on the basketball team just **** [03:07.98]The same ten girls, who don't know who they are [03:12.23]They're looking for some comfort in the back of a car [03:15.04]The six-packs of beer, the locker room jeers [03:18.10] [03:18.85]I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here [03:22.73]Chorus [03:23.54]Red brick schoolhouse, dead end dirt roads, daffodils [03:25.23]No star above my Bethlehem [03:26.85]I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock [03:29.85] [03:30.66]I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here