I'm Through from ZOOT SUIT by JUDGE SMITH

I’M THROUGH

I’m through with always being pleasant
I’m through always believing what I’m told
I feel l like a bolshie adolescent
Who’s somehow grown grotesquely old
I’m through with ‘I must persevere’.
I’m through with striving for success
I’m through with my soi-disant ‘career’.
God knows I’m through
With everything but you.

I’m through with always slaving on some epic
For which demand will never match supply
I’m through with my protestant work ethic
Just want to sit and watch the sky.
I’m through, I’m resigning, I’m rebelling.
I’m through, I’m walking off the field of play.
I hope the universe can hear me yelling
I’m finally through
With everything but you.

‘Life is mostly froth and bubble
But two things stand like stone
Kindness in another’s trouble
And courage in your own.’
I stole those words from some old poem
I set those words to music of a sort
But you seem to live those words every moment
Without a second thought.

So I’m through with the curious assortment
Of things I found significant before.
I’m through with the things that aren’t important
I can’t be bothered anymore.
I’m through with things you’re not a part of.
I’m through with things that do not make you smile
I’m favouring the things you’re at the heart of.
God knows I’m through
With everything but you.

I will stay true
‘Cause I love the things you do.
That’s why I’m through
With everything but you.

• Alternative
• accoustic
• narrative rock
• neo-classical-rock
• songs
• Glastonbury