Where Zero Meets Fifteen

My car broke down in Arizona

Have to ride the bus again

At ten-o-clock on Tuesday night

With thirteen cents and a broken pen

I put my backpack on the bench

Tell two people I don't smoke

See the cop across the street

He thinks that I am selling dope



I could have walked another block

To get away from this scene

Why does it always come to this

Where the zero meets the fifteen?



And so I gave my thirteen cents

To the man who peed his pants

He passes out and falls on me

I watch my change fall from his hand

I see the lady next to me

Holds her baby black blue

The junkie gutter-punks keeps asking

Where I got my new tattoo



What does it matter anyway

Thirteen cents or all I own?

How can I ever save the world

On cup-o-soup and student loans?



I want to try and save the world

But it never goes that way

God I don't know what to do

Down at Colfax and Broadway



Now the man with no shoes on

Says I don't know how to play

He says I fumble all the time

He thinks that I am John Elway

I put my face down in my hands

Water wells inside my eyes

What do I have to give them?

Does it matter if I try?



I can't stand to see you suffer

I try to intellectualize

A formula to end you pain

It doesn't work, God knows I've tried



I want to try and save the world

But it never goes that way

God I don't know what to do

Down at Colfax and Broadway



Sometimes my cup is overfilled

Sometimes I'm too afraid that I'm going to spill