New Deep (Live in Philadelphia, PA & Hartford, CT, August 2004)

I'm so alive

I'm so enlightened

I can barely survive

A night in my mind

So I've got a plan

I'm gonna find out just how boring I am

And have a good time

Cause ever since I've tried

Trying not to find

Every little meaning in my life

It's been fine, I've been cool

With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep

Done with the old me

And talk is the same cheap it's been

Is there a God?

Why is He waiting?

Don't you figure it out

Well He knows my address

And look at the stars

Don't it remind you just how feeble we are?

Well it used to, I guess

Cause ever since I've tried

Trying not to find

Every little meaning in my life

It's been fine, I've been cool

With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep

Done with the old me

And talk is the same cheap it's been

I'm a new man

I wear a new cologne

And you wouldn't know me

If your eyes were closed

I know what you'll say

This won't last longer than the rest of the day

But you're wrong this time

You're wrong

Numb is the new deep

Done with the old me

I'm over the analyzing

Tonight

Stop trying to figure it out

Deep will only bring you down

You know I used to be the backporch poet

With a book of rhymes always

Open, knowing all the time, I'm probably

Never gonna find the perfect rhyme

For 'heavier things'