Jason Mraz - Sold Out lyrics

The Jackson Five
Was a favorite of mine at the time
(Don't blame it on the sunshine)
The east-west village
Is best when the jazz is light
(Don't blame it on the moonlight)
I played on the subway lines
Number one and the nine
(Don't blame it on the good times)

Strawberry Fields already had
Yielded the sign
That Michael Jackson owned Beatles' rights
Lights out, moved out of the big apple city
Time out, no doubt
You know the drive was pretty obscene
‘Vert to Plan B, back home with family
Mechanicsville is misery
Except for all o' that Andy's barbeque
That you can chew

The misses of the fear knows
The Brunswick stew what do you do now that
You're back in your room?
And what are all the people
Gonna think of you?
Well I knew what I was gonna be at home to do
For the next three years waiting for my cue
I'd be working on the songs for
The whole world to sing
And I been jerkin' you along to
Take a ride with me
By brushin' up my scat and
Blues phat jazz chords

Break dance pad on the hardwood floorboard
Slappin' them hands on
The childhood headboard
Romance, sure, lord, I'm twenty years forlorn
Born as a cancer child who could wail, man
Deliverin' the goods because my
Daddy is a mailman
Mommy was a banker, her only drank the sanka
Sister was a taker
So maybe we should thank her
For stealin' the scene that helped
Me get it started

I think that all the genes that
She absorbed was all retarded
And maybe she's invested in me
Once or maybe twice
But, I guess that's best because
It kinda broke the ice
For us old clockin' those janitorial nights
I paid the price to rock nights
For a life behind the mike
MC's around me my best friends found me
I never liked to be just
Another out of town G
Respectfully, see I'd be down on my knees

Spellin' C-A-L-L-A T T
Please please, with the eva save-a-lot
Because who's the boss is a
Show I crave a lot
But, you gotta take a break
From the old school
Gotta set a date with the real you
And ya gotta stay away from
All that new school too
Because there's a lot that you can
Say about the just plain truth
Or consequences, they never will fool me
I'm mixing up the sentences in case
You want to do me

I got one ready for your
Ass if you'll excuse me
I'm Jason Mraz and I just plain
Blame it on the boogie
I'm gonna blame it on the boogie
I'm gonna blame it on the boogie
Boogie boogie (Toca Rivera introduction)
You're never gonna guess
Where I've been been been
And I have no regrets
That I bet my whole checking account
Because it all amounts to nothing
Up in the end
Well you can only count on the road again

We'll soon be on the radio dial
And I been payin' close attention
To the Willie Nelson style
Like a band of gypsies on the highway while
I'm one man pushin' on
The California skyline drive
Up the coast MC brag the most
I'm pickin' up my pace and
Makin' time like space ghost
Raising a toast to the highway
Patrol with the most
I've got my cruise control on
Coast from Farmville to Memphis
Graceland and grace fans

Little Rock
Oklahoma City to the heartland of Texas
Don't mess with the Lone Star, man
My defenses can't rest
I can't handle the pan
So, it's off to the land
Of enchantment to camp it
Albuquerque, Roswell, Santa Fe to stamp it
Send a postcard just the way that I planned
And say I'm on spring break
Because they won't understand
That I'll never be back to
The town of my mother

Messing around with the sound that
Virginia is for lovers
Lover lover, what what
Lover number one just made the cut
Leavin' on the greyhound bus
Oh, baby, leavin' on a jet plane
Never knowing when it's gonna be back again
San Diego is where I plan to stay
Until I move to LA