Obscurity Knocks-The Trash Can Sinatras

[00:00.178]Obscurity Knocks -The Trash Can Sinatras [00:01.105]Lyrics by：John Douglas/Francis Reader/Paul Livingston [00:02.322]Composed by：John Douglas/Francis Reader/Paul Livingston [00:18.246]Always at the foot of the photograph–that's me there [00:24.341]Snug as a thug in a mugshot pose a foul-mouthed rogue [00:30.892]Owner of this corner and not much more [00:34.716]Still these days I'm better placed to get my just rewards [00:43.88]I'll pound out a tune and very soon [00:47.483]I'll have too much to say and a dead stupid name [00:51.572]Though I ought to be learning I feel like a veteran [00:56.93]Of oh I like your poetry but I hate your poems [01:00.869]Calendars crumble I'm knee deep in numbers [01:04.664]I've turned 21I've twist I'm bust and wrong again [01:15.387]Rubbing shoulders with the sheets till two [01:20.218]Looking at my watch and I'm half-past caring [01:24.250]In the lap of luxury it comes to mind [01:28.194]Is this headboard hard am I a lap behind [01:32.385]But to face doom in a sock-stenched room all by myself [01:40.987]Is the kind of fate I never contemplate [01:45.451]Lots of people would cry though none spring to mind [01:49.369]Come through I [01:50.273]Ought to be learning I feel like a veteran [01:54.140]Of oh I like your poetry but I hate your poems [01:58.730]Calendars crumble I'm knee deep in numbers [02:02.890]I've turned 21I've twist I'm bust and wrong again [02:07.750]Know what it's like [02:10.62]To sigh at the sight of the first quarter of life [02:14.934]Ever stopped to think and found out nothing was there [02:29.391]They laugh to see such fun [02:32.351]I'm playing blind man's bluff all by myself [02:37.823]All by myself [02:39.334]And they're chanting a line from a nursery rhyme [02:43.790]Ba ba bleary eyes–have you any idea [02:47.982]Years of learning I must be a veteran [02:52.238]Of oh I like your poetry but I hate your poems [02:56.320]And the calendar's cluttered with days that are numbered [03:00.391]I've turned 21I've twist I'm bust and wrong again [03:05.268]Ought to be learning [03:07.179]Twist I'm bust and wrong again [03:10.147]Feel like a veteran [03:11.587]Twist I'm bust and wrong again [03:14.131]Calendar's cluttered [03:18.73]With days that are numbered [03:21.959]And I know what it's like [03:24.934]To sigh at the sight [03:27.04]Of the first quarter of life [03:31.131]And I know what it's like