Brian Robbins: Music

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EMPTY COKE BOTTLE
Words and Music: Brian Robbins
Album: Banned in the State of Utah

Do you feel all empty inside
like "true love" was just a lie?
Do you feel all bitter and despised
like a California smoker in a checkout line?
Like an empty coke bottle in a full case,
a kid left out of the human race,
a shooting star, misfired along the way.
Do you feel like a curiosity
like an old time expression, an antiquity?
Do you feel like a novelty of sorts
'cause you're out of step with the beat of society?
Like an empty coke bottle in a full case,
a kid left out of the human race,
a shooting star, misfired along the way.
Like you just woke up from a deep freeze,
and the signs are all written in Chinese,
and you're all pissed off 'cause you can't get a double-cheese.
And can you read their minds?
Do you even take the time?
And can you last till you're back in style?
And do you even care
what's in style for underwear?
'cause you know that next year won't be the same.
And on a gray day, do you hold your head in hand?
Do you walk along your tiptoes to avoid the quicksand?
And do you see a world of barbed wire and chains?
Did you blow off all your fingers reaching in a video game?
Like an empty coke bottle in a full case,
a kid left out of the human race,
a shooting star, misfired along the way.
Like a pinball wizard in the video age,
or a Model-T drivin' in a microwave
like a broken man cryin' "out of time, out of place."
Like the last man born without a microchip,
or Jesus Christ trapped on a rocket ship.
Like an empty coke bottle, in a full case.
Like a wrist half slashed with a razor blade
in a prosthetic world, just a throw away,
but you can't afford a new one so you bleed in the lemonade.
Like a dust bowl poet in the new age,
or a ghetto superstar on "Happy Days"
Like an empty coke bottle, in a full case
Like an empty coke bottle in a full case,
a kid left out of the human race,
an empty coke bottle in a full case.