Labelmaker

Unlike things which last forever Love will come and love will go They won't miss me when I'm gone But while I'm here I've got them sold Some say happiness can't be sold What can't be sold Hell I don't know I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker An itinerant who's resistant to the woes of innocence I'm the reluctant intendant to this traveling theater of malignance Don't you find it redundant to ask me the same questions time and again And if you saw me You'd be ashamed of what you've done to me Look what you've done to me Look what you've done to me Look what you've done to me You're ignorant For the same reason you're innocent Cuz you know nothing about selling souls Or you'd know it's impossible to reclaim my own And I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker I look into the past But there's nothing left to see Except your smile and your three fingered wave back to me This is the past And that ain't me I am not who came before me I am not who came before me I am not who came before me No I can't be When I look in the glass I see a TV screen with SMPTE I open up my mouth to speak and all I can muster is a measly KHz You could change the channel and I'd be whatever you want me to be Could you do that For me I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker I ain't no labelmaker I'm your friendly tithe taker Love is like a rose they say It does its best to keep you away With thorns along its side it tells you just to keep on passing it by But you picked it up you fool Look how fast it died on you And if you saw me You'd be ashamed Look what you've done to me Look what you've done to me