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Third Eye Blind Lyrics for Song: Why Can't You Be (Live)
 Lyrics for Album: Red Star EP [2008]
 
 
 
 6102>Are you frightened by the weight you possess
 
 Or is this lie just weightlessness
 
 Smoggy twilight in L.A.
 
 I can't think of one real thing to say
 
 And Robbie Williams is walking in the canyons
 
 Forgets that we were friends
 
 I guess it all depends on your mood
 
 Why can't these meds be any damn good
 
 
 
 And she said,
 
 Why can't you be like my water pick shower massager
 
 A sweet reliable machine
 
 And to tell the truth
 
 I don't feel less alone
 
 My water massager's
 
 The purest love I've ever known
 
 Why can't you be, like when I was thirteen
 
 
 
 He said
 
 Why can't you be
 
 Like an art house foreign movie
 
 Frank and sexy, red balloons and ennui
 
 And aloof to me and
 
 Why can't you be, a little more of a mystery
 
 
 
 Why can't you be
 
 The part of me that's missing
 
 Instead of leaving me for some other
 
 Say we're perfect for each other
 
 And we won't spend this life
 
 Alone
 
 
 
 She said,
 
 Why can't you be
 
 Like and out sourced government contract
 
 And I'm a fat cat getting away with anything
 
 Kicking some secret special powers
 
 Illumination rounds in showers
 
 
 
 'Cause your tearing our hair out
 
 When we could have a bed of flowers
 
 
 
 Why can't you be
 
 Like the chicks out on the road
 
 Some girls are happy just to see me
 
 
 
 Cause you got moxie and a broken nose
 
 You take em away from this prose
 
 Sometimes a blowjob's not enough
 
 Why can't you play
 
 A little less rough
 
 Chorus
 
 
 
 Can we, just leave it be
 
 We could live our lives
 
 Separately
 
 Could you forget
 
 What happens to you and me
 
 When we're dead
 
 And we'll be dead
 
 We'll have eternity
 
 And I will spend it all
 
 Missing you and me
 
 So while I'm alive
 
 I will always be
 
 Seeking you out, wondering about
 
 How'd we go so far down
 
 And what's do wrong with you and me
 
 
 
 Why can't you be, someone looking a little deeper into me
 
 Like J.D. Salinger,
 
 Why do I challenge her
 
 In all the surface ways that you displease
 
 Why can't you be a little more at ease
 
 
 
 Why can't you be, like a hand rolled cigarette
 
 I'm not joking
 
 This masochistic, self-pity of smoking
 
 And this silly ditty that keeps provoking you
 
 To leave me
 
 
 
 Why can't you be like a candle I can snuff
 
 You're still a diamond in the rough
 
 And I swear to god I've had enough
 
 How can I
 
 Call your bluff
 
 6102>
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