Dear Clarksburg by Randy Walker

Dear Clarksburg West Virginia

I'm writing desperate.........hopes that you might understand.
I'm friendless, I'm hopeless
I just need somebody to talk to
Dear Mrs and Mrs Crier
have you have ever heard of Staten Island
Well, I've heard of you
Now there's not really much that either of us can say

Or

Do

5 feet by 8 feet
I live in a boarding room
This is the really the closest that I have ever been to pending doom
The guy next door cries himself to sleep
And makes sure that we all know it
Sometimes I believe in God but make my best to never show it

I'm going to sit down and write a letter
I'm going to write one everyday
To Clarksburg, West Virginia,
To main street, U.S.A

Now there's those who live above
And there's those who live below
Dear Clarksburg West Virginia
I'm just writing to say
Hello

You might recognize me
I assure you that we did meet
I am one of the hundred thousand walking naked on your street
Just a ghost right there beside you
I'm your average American
I promise I won't hurt you
Won't you reach out and touch my hand
Or better yet just keep on walking
Don't even think about turning back
I'm just another human being
That has falling down the crack
You can say that I got problems
You can say that I got a lot
You can say that I'm a guy
That America just forgot

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(CHORUS)

Do you want to be my friend
Are you going to write back
Well, don't do it because you feel sorry for me
Cause I'm gonna keep writing
And it really don't matter if you just want to ignore me
It's true I'm all alone
Are you gonna write back
I can do this by myself
Some people call me pathetic
So well here's to my mental health

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I see the churches
And I see the steeples
You know its funny how you don't have to look to hard
To see all the pissed off people
Oh you can smell the murder
And you can't take the fear
You better hold on tighter
To the ones you hold on so dear
See the little old lady waiting for the bus
Right there in the very next seat
There's a man wearing a clown suit dripping blood from his teeth.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid
A psychopath through and through
On second thought just ignore me
Cause this could never ever happen to you

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Tom Jefferson had big ideas
Because Tom Jefferson could
But now they lasted a whole lot longer than a wet dream ever really should

But the things got the world all over
And no one no longer friends
They just stand around talking to themselves all day
The loony transparent flag

Some people have a knack for living
And some people even live and try
Just promise me one thing that you will kill me while I am still alive

Now you don't have to read my letters
You can hate and curse my name
Just don't forget that I invented embarrassment and shame

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(CHORUS)

Do you want to be my friend
Are you going to write back
Well, don't do it because you feel sorry for me
Cause I'm gonna keep writing
And it really don't matter if you just want to ignore me
It's true I'm all alone
Are you gonna write back
I can do this by myself
Some people call me pathetic
Well, here's to my mental health

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(MUSIC)

I'm a human shaped garbage bag full of shit
And I'm about to make a splash
When I find the nearest sky scraper
Then I'm sure I'm going to be a big big smash
But I'll probably land on some ledge
Knowing my dreadful luck
On the way down you know it felt really good

But once again here I'm stuck
Stuck
Somewhere between infancy and death
Just looking for a break
If I still believed in God
Well then I pray for heaven sake
Did you know with ...............

And it actually being.....
Cause all the lousy paperwork will swallow you down the drain

Oh yeah one day I'm gonna a big white star
I'm gonna make you listen to me then
And you ain't gonna know no better.
Because rock and roll never changed a God damn thing

Who knows I might get thrown in jail
And maybe then I'll dry out
If you take away a man's bottle
Then he'll have nothing to cry about

You know sometime life is just a slot machine
And you never ever learn
You feed it a hundred thousand quarters
And get a nickel in return
It's always a no win situation
Cause your gonna die either way

Look there goes another tomorrow
Gone another day....

By the way ain't ......so unoriginal
It's gone again and again

If you really want to be something constructive ....
...............

Oh yeah

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My country tis of thee
Sweet sweet land of liberty
This land is your land
This land is mine
But don't talk too loud

And don't think to much

Or they will bury you in it

Oh yeah

Oh yeah

Oh yeah

The hero is shifting and shiftless

Oh yeah

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