Not What I Needed

Lyrics for Not What I Needed

I have nothing but questions I need answers, those would fill me up I know when I'm being catered to I know when I'm being catered to I will not settle for the lowest common denominator Hello my friend, we've been waiting for you for a long time We have reason to believe that your soul is just like ours Did you ever get the feeling you were just a little different? Well, here's our web page, you've finally found a home Good people give good advice Get a job, eat an apple, it'll work itself out It's a phase (it's a phase) It's chemistry (it's chemistry) It's your own fault (it's your own fault) Well don't listen to us We're just people too I've been waiting all my life I've been waiting for some real good porn Something with meaning, something fulfilling I'd like to make my shame count for something I feel so empty trying to explain this His name is William Onyeabor, he's from the 70s And when I wake up in the morning, there are people sleeping on my couch Well, I'll have something to say about that one Free people give free advice Let go of the pain, let go of the fear But if I let go of that What will still be here? Will I find out That I am just people too? Should I say that one more time? Um, yeah, I mean, uh... The intent was sort of to go back to those periods And revisit them a little bit, especially with Teens of Style You know, the Teens of Denial, it was sort of contemporaneous When I was writing it You know, and what I was experiencing at the time And, uh, I guess I was just out of my teenage years When I was writing things for Teens of Denial And I didn't really feel like anything had changed So, um yeah, I guess, you know That the two of those albums together are sort of They're both an exploration of past feelings And how they, how they, connect to the present And what I'm doing in the present tense I'm sorry, you'll have to say that again The connection must be bad Um, can you try one more time? Ah, um, when I was starting out I, uh, recorded vocals in my car sometimes Uh, just for the sake of privacy