Blizzard - Telethon

Yesterday I walked outside

Someone was parked at the light

In a Camaro convertible

So I walked right back inside

Opened my apartment door

Equally vexing as it was before

And I realized

This is my life

One day it’ll be over

I’ll have survived

One hundred years of ‘Tomorrow I’m gonna get it right'

Have you ever looked around

Looked yourself up and looked yourself down

And thought «Shit.»

As someone who passes himself off as effortless

You really are quite effortful and stressed

Skeptical of anything that counteracts

All assumptions that you’ve set like cataracts

Try to relax

There’s people right here on the earth who care about you

And that makes everything harder because you will it to be so

There’s millions of different worlds lightyears from this one

While you guard yourself from having fun

What do you think they’re doing there?

Do you even care?

Back when I lived in a midwestern state

Blizzards and blistering cold lent permission

Not to go

You can’t do much when it’s 8 below

The sun’s down early if it comes up at all

It’s understood you’re not alone

City bus lines are crowded and complicated

Laptops glow and everyone’s suntan’s faded

But in California what are you supposed to do

Besides use your own neuroticism as an excuse?

I could be cruising Route 1 or staring at the Golden Gate Bridge

But I’m bleaching all my countertops instead

There’s plenty of cities and towns here

All different and they’re beautiful

As the Redwood Forest, the Gulf Stream waters, and you

Now we commence the convincing

The staggeringly difficult part

That this all has just got to be true

True for me, too