Songtext The unrecovered one The Roches

The unrecovered one

Here I am Im the unrecovered one
You can talk to me if you want to if you want to
You can shun me.

I stumble through the streets with my pride and my arrogance
I spit right in your face when you invite me to dance
I go months and years at a time terminally unique
With my pills and my bottle of wine
I am very very very very very very very very weak.

I cant get out of bed the hangovers got my head
So I forgot to take the garbage out and put the kid to bed
Were all wandering around in my house
Like the night of the living dead
Im someone that you can look at and be glad
Youre not me instead.

Underneath your sobriety and your piety and your quiet
Theres a human being there whos got a spirit and has to
Learn how to fly it.

The controls are on the panel
And the manuals in the flotation device. but if it comes to
Using that youve already crashed through thin ice.

Im not saying Im better than you I feel like youre saying
Youre better than me
You say tough luck I sobered up and now Im running the
Company
Your higher power hes like my God hell take you out in a
Flash youll see
And do the same for all your loved ones and the ones like me
You pity.