Maybe I'm Better Off
Todd Rundgren

Maybe I'm better off
If I never leave this cell
Maybe I've lived enough
In a world as free as hell (just as free as hell)
Where you keep on thinking
While it's stinking
You enjoy the smell
And you lick the bowl as well
Love's out there
They tell you
They sell you anything to make you happy
Then it all just turns to crap
So maybe I'm better off
Than I was when I was young
Now that I know the cost
When you try to love someone
Guess I'm better off
In jail at thirty-one

What about all my friends?
Now I won't have to watch them die
And every time they sell out
I won't be there to question why
They can get so high
On the butts they're kissing
While they're pissing
'Way each other's lives
As they shag each other's wives
No shopping, co-oping
None of the grand design to sooth the masses
'Til it's time to pay your taxes
Maybe I'm better off
Than I was in days gone by
Now that I know the cost
When you set your sights too high
Yes I'm better off

It's jailbreak time for Ian

Maybe I'm better off
Now that I've kissed her off
Now that they've whisked me off to the slammer and
Maybe I'm better off
Now that she's pissed me off
Now that my fist takes on a new glamour and
Maybe my mind's run off
Maybe I've just gone off my head
Maybe I've just gone 'round the bend
Maybe I'm in my own little world

It's jailbreak time for Ian
Praise the lord, it's jailbreak time for Ian
What the hell took you so long?

Life hands you new chances
Uncertain circumstances
Set you back
But then you win the Lotto jackpot
Every time you give up (every time you give up)
Then you give up being young
Everything has a cost
That's the way this world is run
Maybe I'm better off
Now I'm free and thirty-one
I'm free, male, and thirty-one


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  Dogfight Giggle   Don't Hurt Yourself   don't Tie My Hands   Don't You Ever Learn?   Dreams Of Ordinary Men   Drive   dust In The Wind   Eastern Intrigue   Eastern Intrigue\/Initiation   Emperor Of The Highway   Entropy   Everybody's Going To Heaven / King Kong Reggae   Everybody's Going to Heaven \/ King Kong Reggae   Fade Away   Fair Warning   Feel It   Feel It (Live)   Feel It (Tubes Version)   Feel Too Good   Feet Don't Fail Me Now   fidelity   Flesh   For A Song   Free, Male And 21   Free, Male, And Twenty-One   Freedom Fighter   From Hunger   Gaya's Eyes   Golden Goose   Good Vibrations   Hammer In Your Heart   happenings Ten Years Time Ago   Hawking   Healer   Healing Part I   Healing Part Ii   Healing Part Iii   Heaven's Falling   Heavy Metal Kids   hello It's Me   Hello Its Me   Hello, It's Me   Hideaway   Hit Me Like A Train   Hodja   Holyland   Honest Work   hope I'm Around   Hope I'm Around (On Original Runt)   Hungry For Love   Hurting For You   I Don't Want To Tie You Down   I Hate My Frickin I.S.P   I Hate My Frickin Isp   I Love My Life   I Saw The Light   I Think You Know   I Want You   i Went To The Mirror   i'm In The Clique   I'm So Proud   If 6 Was 9   If I Have To Be Alone   If Six Was Nine   Imagination   In The End   Influenza   Initiation   International Feel   Is It My Name? 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