Letras
Nothing can keep you down
Nothing can keep you dumb
Nothing can keep you marching
Nothing will keep you young
You talk about your life in sports analogies
Secretly you're feeling kind of empty
You play the stock market in your spare time
Away from the demanding rocket science grind
Are you on the highway clenching
Your teeth in your mouth and the wheel in your hand
With your self-help tape on ten are you rattling the windows?
Do you think you just saw your last chance fly past and go?
Paperclip, paper
Keeping it together
Stay with it, stay with it forever
Life is hammered down to just one hamster
Wondering if you are going to feed it
Or does it have to roll over, play dead
For you to even see it?
The problem is that when you wear your nice lace
Buttoned to the top it irritates your neck
Where you had an operation a few years back
And they removed the defiant look from your face
Paperclip, paper
Keeping it together
Stay with it, stay with it forever
If everyone else jumped off a cliff
Would you drive down to the bottom in your Jeep
And go through everyone else's wallets
Just to see if there was anything worth keeping?
Don't settle down
Don't settle for nothing
Until you're clear on who you're doing it for
Are you going to let your petri dish of plans
Fester by the back door?
The road well traveled is the boring one
You're going to fall asleep on the ride, hon
A bit of drool against a dirty window
Keeping you from going where you should go
Paperclip, paper
Keeping it together
Stay with it, stay with it forever
If you can never be too rich or too thin
When you eventually collapse on the street
Is it expensive to keep the story out of the newspaper?
Once the sod really takes root here
And the trees are large enough
That the dogs can't pull them out of the ground
This would be a lovely place to live
If money can't buy you love, what are you saving it for?
Thinking small thoughts? Thinking mall thoughts?
Counteract it, baby, with a little acting up maybe