Can't Be Bothered lyrics help

[dee]

Anyone care to take a stab at the lyrics for this Tommy Stinson song?

[Veets]

We got two hundred a week [probably wrong]
Maybe just got a little too tired to go to sleep
Maybe I'll check the weather
Out on a limb
Perhaps we went to far for startin over again
Cuz we can't be bothered
With any of that
Now we can't be bothered
With any of that
No we can't be bothered
With any of that

Waitin out here on pins and needles
We've drawn [joined?] blood just to live in the sequels
Story once had a good plot
Livin in our teens
At first it started out with the things we'll never be

Now we can't be bothered
With any of that
Now we can't be bothered
With any of that
Now we can't be bothered
Depending on that [?]

You're free the leave in the mornin
I'm free to never meet them

The worst things seem to happen in threes
We used to flip the bird until the bird returned to the tree

Now we can't be bothered
With any of that [x5]

You're free to live in the moment
[?]


FWIW, I always thought that 80% of this song sounded like a message to Paul

[dee]

Thanks! You filled in some things I couldn't quite make out.
I think the first line is "We got too hungry to eat".

I also hear this song as a message to PW about the band.

[ClamsCasino]

Definitely “We got too hungry to eat”

Also, “A free man in the morning/I’ll be a free man in the evening.”

And I’m way less sure about this, but I’ve been singing, “The story once had a good part, but in the nineteens.” As in the 1980s.

Tommy wrote this on the last tour with Paul, so…yeah.

[dee]

I agree with the “A free man in the morning/I’ll be a free man in the evening” lines.

I kind of wanted it to be "You're free half the morning/I'm a free man in the evening" the first time this part plays,as in their schedules don't work out.Then the second time it's “I'll be a free man in the morning/I’ll be a free man in the evening” as in either it didn't work out so now he can do what he wants when he wants,or it could mean he's willing to be there whenever to keep it going.It could still mean that regardless.

Also I hear "We used to flip the bird until the bird turned to the dream." Like maybe they no longer care what becomes of the band going forward because of,maybe,the pressure of having to live up to the past.It's all subjective interpretation of course.

It's cool to pick over a song that may be addressing the relationship within the band,but I can relate it to my own life as well with old friends and relationships with people that have soured or fallen away or got too complicated.The ones that are maybe long gone,but kind of stick in the back of your mind.

[wibbler]

Feb 19, 2022 3:02:07 GMT -5 Veets said:

We got two hundred a week [probably wrong]

The cards with the Deluxe version of Anything Could Happen suggest it's:
We got too hungry to eat