The Smith Street Band - Why I Can't Draw lyrics

I found an old notebook
Filled up with pictures
Found my friends in hospital
Beds with facial stitches
We sat around the table drinking
Hoping no one would ever die
A scribble of an elephant with
"Why I can't draw and why everyone is evil"
Written above it in faded black ink
Heated debate about the legal system
Let's have a rally, let's start a revolution
Set fire under our feet and do our
Best not to stamp it out
And all I can see through
The rooftops and the chimneys
Is the top of a billboard that reads "love
" and I think it's an advert
For nasal spray technology
But in my current state
It doesn't matter much

And these things are consuming
But there's more to
Me than lack of sleep and anxiety
And darling you've befriended
Drop-outs and drifters
So why would you expect anything different?
This is a summer song
And I want you all to sing along it goes

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da whoa, oh, oh, oh

And a woman with a face that slid
Right down to the top of
Her dress told me I'd succeed because
I'd been touched by a goddess
If society's taught me anything it's that
Writing is much easier than speaking
That walking's best done in silence and
Rooftops are best left leaking
And as we boarded up the wall where
Our fists had fell the night before
I said, "I'm sorry that I shout
I'm not sorry but I don't put out
I'm sorry I don't understand things unless
I find music in them"

And I know that you feel like I left you
But you left me without much of a choice
And I haven't learnt to draw but
At least I never lost, never lost my voice

These things are consuming but
There's more to
Me than lack of sleep and anxiety
Darling you've befriended drop-outs
And drifters
So why would you expect anything different?
This is a summer song
And I want you all to sing along
One, two, three! It goes

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da oh, oh, oh, oh
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh