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Don't Wanna Be Here
Soundtrack: Ordinary Days
Don't Wanna Be Here Song Lyrics
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I grew up in like, the middle of nowhere
And I swore I would never go back.
My hometown was like the suburb of a suburb
I actually lived on a cul-de-sac.
That’s literally a road that goes nowhere.
That’s the definition of dead end.
I said, “I can’t wait to learn to do a three-point-turn”
Because I don’t wanna be here.
In four long years, I finished up with high school.
Graduated top of my class. Thank you!
But in college I discovered that devising my own major
Was a bureaucratic pain in the ass.
I thought I’d recontextualize Sartre
But could only register for first-year French. Ha!
Well, you should’ve heard my mom when I dropped the bomb
And said, “I don’t wanna be here
No, I don’t wanna be here.”
Now, I am not a negative person
It’s just that I’ve always known that I had places to go
Dreams to fulfill and ideas to discover
They’re just never where I am.
So anyway, back at school
I waited five semesters
Till I could snag one of their random degrees
I moved down south, ‘cause I heard everyone was hiring
And they were. At the Applebee’s.
They fired me, like, three weeks later.
My sublet promptly, whoops, fell through.
As I checked into a hotel, I said, “It’s just as well.
Because I don’t wanna be here.
No, I don’t wanna be here.”
And I, I was not a negative person
So I packed up my bags, though I had no place to go
I opened a map and said, “Show me my future.
‘Cause it isn’t where I am.”
I finally got a job at some hum-drum office
Like everyone right out of school does
I sat there at my cubicle every day
Sending faxes, and that’s what my life was
Oh, I went back home and said to my parents,
“I know what I’ve got to do.”
And since I am a dork
I moved to New York
And I started grad school.
I really don’t wanna be here.
[Thanks to Dana Jayne, David Stockton for lyrics]
Track Listing
›One By One by One
›Don't Wanna Be Here
›The Space Between
›Let Things Go
›Dear Professor Thompson (Part 1)
›Life Story
›Dear Professor Thompson (Part 2)
›I'm Trying
›Saturday at the Met
›Favorite Places
›Sort-Of Fairy Tale
›Fine
›Big Picture
›Hundred-Story City
›Party Interlude
›Calm
›Life Story (reprise)
›Gotta Get Out
›Rooftop Duet / Falling
›I'll Be Here
›Beautiful
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