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Seeing as we're here already
Seeing as we're here tonight
I think I'll forgive the last time
You didn't treat me right
Can I have a bite of your macaroni and cheese?
We're even, I guess I'm easy to please
See, 'cause last time we went to dinner
I asked if I could have a bite
And you said, "no, honey, this is the, the first meal that"
"That I've had all day and all night"
So I sat there on the other side and I ate my beans and rice
Then the lady came to clear the table, and what did I find?
A chicken wing
You let that woman carry that chicken wing to the back and throw it away
After I asked if I could have one and you said, "no"
This what we call first-world problems
But I'm processing
This is my blues
I guess it's the equivalent of when you write a grant application and they say
"Oh, no, we can't, we can't afford that"
And I'll be like, "but I just wanna bring twelve singers into the space with"
"Like some taiko drums and some aerials and possibly a crane"
I'm hearing something
And they're like, "no"
Then you hear about this European man who does an opera with two hundred sheep
What?
I don't know where this is going, I'm, it's the blues, so I'm just telling you what's on my mind
That's a real thing?
It's a real thing
I've heard of people doing things with sheep, but I guess it wasn't an opera
Yeah, that's a different kind of blues (yeah), yeah
Anyway, the phenomenon
When you're just asking for a little and you don't even get nothing
Then you see there was extra anyway
Like somebody saving their last piece of gum
And you're like, "but you need it now"
"So either give it to me or you use it"
"'Cause one of us needs to have fresh breath, goddamn" (for sure)
Didn't even think to split it in half, that would be cooperative
Some people might call that communism
Don't you hate when you offer somebody gum when they need it and they say no?