New Tricks Lyrics - Mary Prankster

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I went to years of public schools
Those education tractor-pulls
It gave me a diploma and a scar

"I want to be a star!" I cried
They said, "You`re overqualified.
Why don`t you learn to tune your damn guitar?"

I fucked a bunch of stupid men
Went back and fucked `em all again
Was never much for romance anyhow

Pressing Sunday comic art
Onto my Silly Putty heart
It doesn`t break, just bends a little now

I was gonna change the world through music
I was gonna fall in love
I was gonna live the good life I`d been hearing so much of

I was gonna be a rock star, baby
I was gonna have some fun
I sure miss twenty-one

Every friend a starving artist
Argue over who`s the smartest
Every contest ending in a draw

Masquerade as petty thugs
And do some psychedelic drugs
Nipping at the ankles of the law

We were gonna start a revolution
We were gonna make the scene
We were gonna marry movie stars and storm the silver screen

We were gonna write important novels
We were gonna start a band
It hasn`t gone as planned

Spent more years than I remember
In a club where every member
Never feels as if he quite belongs

Searching for my pleasure in
Some brand-new kind of deadly sin
My life is just as aimless as my songs

I`m gonna make it back to college
I`m gonna quit my job
I`m gonna buy the store that I`d been planning just to rob

I`m gonna teach this old dog new tricks
Drinking from the brimming cup
As soon as I wake up

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