Coffeehouse 101
words and music by Scott Wilson

1 Must it be so hard
2 To bear your own iniquities
3 Or are they something
4 That are worth having

5 I could have studied Charlie Chaplin
6 Instead of Socrates
7 Do you prefer the taste of poison
In your coffee?

8 I guess it's just the way
9 That I look at the world
10 You gotta kill the clam
11 Just to get at the pearl

12 Is it really necessary
13 To meditate your emptiness
14 Guess I live slightly east of Eden

15 And when you say your prayers
16 I just have to ask myself
17 Exactly whose dreams
18 Are you feeding
With your sweet caress?

19 I guess it's just the way
20 That I look at the world
21(Get yourself together now)
22 You gotta kill the boy
Just to get at the girl

23 This might be just cynicism
24 Or the way that I feel
25 Cheerful witticisms
26 As I witness the end of the world
27 But this is just another song that I wrote
28 I didn't mean to rock your boat
29 But I did




30 I guess that's just the way
That I look at the world
(Solo)
31 I guess it's just the way
That I look at the world

32 Can you distill your pain
33 By drowning in your loneliness
34 In case you think
That you've got it that bad

35 Better find your selves
36 And count your many blessings
37 Or we might find ourselves
A passing fad
38 Get your self together now

39 I guess it's just the way
That I look at the world
40 (Fourth dimensionalities)
41 You gotta hit a clam
Just to get at the pearl
42 (Call it practicality)

43 I guess it's just the way
That I look at the world
44 (Innuendo and banalities)
45 Can you take a guess
Who didn't get the girl?
46 (That would be me)