Question

Local song for the dignity

Answer 1

Answer:

Faith don't pay the bills, pulled over, got a ticket

Easy come easy go, my way

We'll sing and dance for food today

A whole lotta work, very little pay

Working on an empty tank, with a simple faith

(But faith don't pay the bills so)

Mom and Dad said my music would never be lucrative

But I could prove them wrong if I could get you to give

$14.99 to your local starving artist

(Or ten if you see me at the table)

So help support a local starving artist

(So if you got no self-esteem sing)

Farewell, farewell my

Farewell, farewell my dignity

These phone calls just don't work, my love

(I miss you, I miss you, I miss you)

Guess my voice just ain't enough

But let's keep thinking glass-half-full kinda stuff

(Half full baby, half full baby)

Maybe we can pretend our words could touch

Because I'm "two thumbs up", 4 stars, 5 microphones

Critically acclaimed and popular too

Told my self-respect that I had to take a rain check

Cause Daddy's gotta do what he's gotta do

(Don't make me get my belt)

So I better say...

Cause pride is just a five-letter word

I said pride is just a five-letter word

So I better say farewell my

So I better say farewell my

I'm the little engine that could spill a million and one brilliant rhythmical runs to fill a venue with

Thumbs up, empty pockets, empty wallet, empty logic, many problems for an indie scholar into popping

Collars, often talking awkward into anti-popular opinion, and I'll mock your opinion in every song that

Gets written, and it was not my intention to come off bitter and cynical but my dignity's missing, so just

Forget it, it's pitiful