Elliott Smith

saw you dropped in the slot
sayin' I got a brand new game
running down the alley with an hour you bought
from a man with no last name
like an idiot animal
too stupid to shame

got a brand new game
got a brand new, brand new game
got a brand new game
got a brand new game

ape men in a cave
painting on the wall
nothing's going to keep
ambition's menacing glances
and nothing's that's got it all
from gazing over to where hope sleeps
artificially small
like a beast too tame

got a brand new, brand new game
got a brand new game
got a brand new game

no happiness allowed
cuz one's never enough, two is always a crowd

I've got a microscope and a slide
and a glass eye nature made
everything's impossible
there's nothing to do
but oppose this promenade

push the point to oblivion
and keep turning the blade

got a brand new game
got a brand new, brand new game
got a brand new game
got a brand new game