I Deserve to Be Alive

I might be problematic

But that’s always automatic

I’ll never take a dive

I deserve to be alive

I’ve got a checkered past

The damage done will last

Guilt’s beyond a nine to five

I deserve to be alive

I’m spinning my wheels

Made no business deals

Got no capitalist drive

I deserve to be alive

My future is uncertain

And it’s my anxious burden

Got no kids or wives

I deserve to be alive

I’ve broken every cycle

Without praying to St. Michael

Put down the pocket knives

You deserve to be alive

You deserve to have some fun

You deserve to be the one

Who keeps spreading the love

They’ll never get enough

The past is gone forever

Prepare for sunny weather

We’re a family, not a hive

We deserve to be alive

We deserve to be alive

We deserve to be alive

We deserve nothing less

Than life’s very best

Breathe Again

VERSE 1

It’s like deer hunting, with a camera, not a gun

Learning again that life should be fun

For every shadow that darkens your sunny day

There’s a candle that lights the rest of the way

Gratitude is underrated, but no less important

Even the smallest details cure you of boredom

Rock song, kitty cat, RPG, more of that

Eat candy, grow fat, home run with a bat

CHORUS

Just breathe

Breathe again

Just breathe

Make the world your very best friend

VERSE 2

Finding magic in the most ordinary

Finding strength for the burden you carry

Finding a way through life’s obstacles

Finding solutions for the impossible

Finding a world beyond death itself

Finding a reason to live in good health

Finding a path that leads out of your bed

And never forgetting the sweet words said

EXTENDED CHORUS 1

Just breathe

Breathe again

Just breathe

Make the world your very best friend

Just breathe

Breathe once more

Just breathe

Spread your angel wings and soar

VERSE 3

It’s not rock bottom if it has a foundation

It’s not death if you still rise to the occasion

It’s not failure if you gained an education

It’s not over even after life’s expiration

It’s not hell if there’s no damnation

It’s not prison if there’s clear exoneration

It’s not hatred if it’s beyond infatuation

Let’s do it all again like it’s reincarnation

EXTENDED CHORUS 2

Just breathe

Breathe again

Just breathe

A new beginning is not the end

Just breathe

Breathe once more

Just breathe

Ask what else life has in store

Just breathe

Breathe again

Mediocrity

VERSE 1

The Penultimate Warrior, the Over-Giver

Velveteen Limbo, a bunch of chopped liver

The devil’s least favorite demon

B-Team! B-Team! The playing field is even

I will not celebrate or tolerate mediocrity

I will succeed in any meritocracy

I’ll fight forever if that’s what it takes

I’ve got no time for the players and fakes

CHORUS

I’m not here to do my best

I’m here to defeat the rest

I’m not here to lay my ass down

I’m here to take over this town

I’m not here for participation

I’m here to rule this nation

I came to conquer, I shoot to kill

If you won’t step up, then I will

VERSE 2

The world’s eleventh strongest man

The last man standing sitting on his ass

The king of the hill turned into a pawn

The grand wizard with a broken wand

I refuse to go quietly into the night

To compromise what I believe is right

To sink beneath my comfortable sofa

To let mediocrity be my magnum opus

CHORUS

I’m not here to do my best

I’m here to defeat the rest

I’m not here to lay my ass down

I’m here to take over this town

I’m not here for participation

I’m here to rule this nation

I came to conquer, I shoot to kill

If you won’t step up, then I will

BRIDGE

I’ll sleep when I’m dead inside my head

Not a moment sooner than when I bled

Even as a skeleton collecting spider webs

I’ll never give up is what I’ve always said

You don’t get to choose when it’s over for me

You don’t get to micromanage or oversee

Keep talking shit and you’ll always be wrong

No matter how much you say or for how long

CHORUS

I’m not here to do my best

I’m here to defeat the rest

I’m not here to lay my ass down

I’m here to take over this town

I’m not here for participation

I’m here to rule this nation

I came to conquer, I shoot to kill

If you won’t step up, then I will

I Don't Have To

VERSE 1

Just because I won’t join the fucking army

Doesn’t mean I wear the clothes of Barbie

There is no shame in staying right at home

It’s better than being dead and buried alone

The drill instructors are too damn loud

The abusive authority is too damn proud

I won’t die for some rightwing agenda

Or have visions of war burned into my retina

CHORUS 1

I don’t have to and I don’t want to

I don’t care if “Uncle Sam wants you!”

They can do just fine without me

The war machine will not devour me

VERSE 2

Blaming a whole generation of people

Is just as bigoted and just as evil

Millennials figured out a long time ago

If you step on a land mine, it’s going to blow

Body parts are strewn across the desert

Staying at home sounds so much better

We’re not the cowards you make us out to be

We’re just like you; we were born to be free

CHORUS 1

I don’t have to and I don’t want to

I don’t care if “Uncle Sam wants you!”

They can do just fine without me

The war machine will not devour me

VERSE 3

Coming home in a wooden casket

Flowers on your grave in a woven basket

Going insane with the trauma of war

Held prisoner behind padded cell doors

Financially crippled, forever homeless

Forever damaged, forever hopeless

This is far from being the American Dream

It’s the American Nightmare, time to scream

CHORUS 2

I don’t have to and I don’t want to

Death and blood will forever haunt you

I don’t belong in a body freezer

It’s not betrayal, I’m not stabbing Caesar