I commit myself to sabotage

See, I can get what I want

Then I'll make it hard to hold on

Convince myself that I'm without a god

A spiritual fraud who got lost in her own sad song

We were talking out back by the garbage cans

About dreams that we had and the five-year plan

Missing the mark, I'm laughing in the dark

'Cause, after all, no one's in control

Go easy, kid, it's only rock and roll

Pledge allegiance to some sanity

It comes into view for a moment or two, then it leaves me

Apologizing to the neighborhood

And all the calls will be saved, look

I wanna be brave if I could

I was talking out back with an empty man, he said

"'Member times that we had before you got in that van

Left me in the dark, alone in the park?"

'Cause, after all, no one's in control

Go easy, kid, it's only rock and roll

Cut through the smoke

There's no secret special code

No deeper hidden wisdom

Just accept we'll never know

We were talking out back by the garbage cans

About dreams that we had and the five-year plan

Missing the mark, we're laughing in the dark

'Cause after all, no one's in control

Go easy, kid

In twenty years, kid, you're gonna look back

And wish you grabbed it all by the throat

And said, "Fuck it, it's only rock and roll"

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