Unlike things which last forever
Love will come and love will go
They won't miss me when I'm gone
But while I'm here I've got them sold
Some say happiness can't be sold
What can't be sold
Hell I don't know
I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
An itinerant who's resistant to the woes of innocence
I'm the reluctant intendant to this traveling theater of malignance
Don't you find it redundant to ask me the same questions time and again
And if you saw me
You'd be ashamed of what you've done to me
Look what you've done to me
Look what you've done to me
Look what you've done to me
You're ignorant
For the same reason you're innocent
Cuz you know nothing about selling souls
Or you'd know it's impossible to reclaim my own
And I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
I look into the past
But there's nothing left to see
Except your smile and your three fingered wave back to me
This is the past
And that ain't me
I am not who came before me
I am not who came before me
I am not who came before me
No I can't be
When I look in the glass I see a TV screen with SMPTE
I open up my mouth to speak and all I can muster is a measly KHz
You could change the channel and I'd be whatever you want me to be
Could you do that
For me
I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
I ain't no labelmaker
I'm your friendly tithe taker
Love is like a rose they say
It does its best to keep you away
With thorns along its side it tells you just to keep on passing it by
But you picked it up you fool
Look how fast it died on you
And if you saw me
You'd be ashamed
Look what you've done to me
Look what you've done to me