Pardon Me (Live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - March 2004)

Pardon me while I burst

Pardon me while I burst

A decade ago

I never thought I would be

At twenty-three on the verge of spontaneous combustion

Woe is me

But I guess that it comes with the territory

Anomalous landscape of never-ending calamity

I need you to hear

I need you to see

That a day of battle I can take in exploding

Seems like an evident possibility to me

So pardon me while I burst into flames

And tire of the world and its people's mindless games

So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flames

Pardon me, pardon me, I'll never be the same

Not two days ago

I was having a look in a book

And I saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knee

I said I can relate

'Cause lately I've been thinking of compostication

As a well-earned vacation from

The burdens of the planet earth

The gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of opinion

Screams from thinking so much differently

So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flames

Pardon me, pardon me, I'll never be the same

I'll never be the same

Pardon me, pardon me, pardon me

So pardon me while I burst into flames

And tire of the world and its people's mindless games

So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flames

Pardon me, pardon me, I'll never be the same

Pardon me, I'll never be the same again