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2002-2014
the matthew show
the matthew show
Lyrics
Pretty
White People With Problems
(©
2012 the matthew show)
Pretty white
people with problems, they talk all night about nothing at all
They say “good times” to convince themselves, they’re
blown away by a half-assed song
Pretty white people with problems carry ‘em down to the coffee
shop
Spectacle beard hats, blue screens glowing, fair trade mocha for five
bucks
And I could
complain, but then here I sit
Pretty blue eyes and a guitar spilling songs about all this pretty white
shit
Born on second, running for third
And hoping like hell for homeward bound
And I’m trying hard to keep my head on straight
With these pretty white people around
Pretty white
people with problems dancing drunk under the LEDs
Nodding to songs about dust bowl hard times, it ain’t easy being
Snoop D-O-double-G
Pretty white people with problems, Howard Zinn up on the bookcase
Minimum wage down at the craft-beer co-op, somehow the bills keep getting
paid
And
I could complain, but then here I sit
I made a whole forty dollars fifty singing songs about pretty white
shit
You play with the cards that you are given
And fish in your pocket when you hear the sound
Of a tin cup down an alley with all these pretty white people around
Now,
if I was anybody else, wearing any other face
They probably wouldn’t even let me near this place
Pretty white
people with problems smoking pot under a knick-knack shelf
Talking about the ones that got away to be pretty white people somewhere
else
And
I could complain, but then here I sit
Pretty blue eyes and a guitar spilling songs about all this pretty white
shit
It's an echo of a tortured history
An unspoken hand-me-down
A picture fading through the memories of all these pretty white people
around
