given sugar
given salt
I'll subsist
but I am not

what you need
what you need

I can't be what they want me to be
I don't see what they need me to see
I won't say what they told me to say
so it's so long thank you anyway
so long thank you have a nice day

come the mountain
come mohammed
I been weighed, I been measured
I been found wanting

next one please
next one please

I can't be what they want me to be
I don't see what they need me to see
I won't say what they told me to say
so it's so long thank you anyway
so long thank you have a nice day

there was a time in life I was good at this
there was a time in life I never missed
there was a time in life I was good at this
but it's gone it's gone it's gone