Better Off As We Are
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Song Notes:
"This is about not being satisfied with where you've come from. It's unwanted advice, people telling you that you're better off just staying connected to the environment you grew up in, but for me, I don't have an environment I grew up in. Nothing ever prepared me for a life in music, but I sort of feel I must have been... either people in my family were hiding it or I was born differently because I feel very suited to living in an environment full of musicians, but nobody in my family ever did that. It's not like they were discouraging or anything, but I think striking out into a different way of life than what you've been presented with when you were young... it presents its own problems." - Jim Cuddy
Lyrics
We sat around at night and talked about so many things
lay on the floor till the morning appeared
you laughed at me and said I just don't get it
you said we should be making plans for getting out of here
Somebody told me when I was just a little kid
don't follow leaders just think for yourself
but everybody minds everybody else's business here
why can't they turn their eyes to somebody else
Tell me no use thinking
we could ever be something
we could rise with the stars
better off as we are
My older brother he left the day he finished school
moved down to New York to Washington Square
he calls me up and says you should come and see me
watch the waves of people rolling everywhere
Tell me no use thinking
we could ever be something
we could rise with the stars
better off as we are
Late in the evening I'm up in my room
trying to think of nothing clear away the day
I lie awake and let my body wander
up into the moonlight floating away
Tell me no use thinking
we could ever be something
we could rise with the stars
better off as we are
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