Won’t Listen When

By Drapht

On The Life of Riley

Released on April 1, 2011

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[Verse 1]

Yesterday I was 21 and going on 28

Many ways still the little spaghetti faced

Lemonade making from the generation

Raising kids on killing and masturbation

Like Jason and Jenna Jamieson fornicated

Made them a little alien naming him Damien

And I'm trading the way that you think

And when the government contaminates the water you drink

String up the puppets, roll out the robots march to the

Same beat, so they know not what I'm saying

It's the businessman in the suit and tie

And the differences with you and I


[Chorus]

Won't listen when you tell me, time to settle down

Time to get a house or it's time to mellow out

No, and it's time to have kids

And I ain't going out like this, no nooo


[Verse 2]

See the robots march to the same beat

Same sheep all peddling the same beast

Fate leaves you reeling in the women

Don't have a dream, you're back to the beginning

Living your lie, living your little mid-life crisis

Stylers of Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus

Life is more than marriage and having kids

24 with the mortgage, divorcing at 36? Nah

Come on now, nah, not me, not mean

Party non-stop like Tommy Lee and the Mötley

Crüe, you don't find youth at a swap-meet

Not seeing friends, you forgot me. Ask for

One beer, I'm asking just for one call

But you're too busy wasting that one life

Know everyone fears, living alone

If you pick up the phone at home and there's no one and not


[Chorus]

Won't listen when he tell me, time to settle down

Time to get a house or it's time to mellow out

No, and it's time to have kids

And I ain't going out like this, no nooo

Won't listen, no, listen when


[Verse 3]

Nah, you know why?

'Cos I never liked school growing up or showing up

Mouse or a nah 'cos I never liked no one, nah

No wonder I never knew enough, never stuck

To a desk or till I'm gone, you like this when you were young?

My dad would try to lure mum to fix me

He needed a break like girls on a fixie

He pleaded with Ma, "The kid needs a doctor."

What for? 'Cos I found porno in your sock drawer?

Kid's got a lockjaw, needs confidence

It a being understep, I know what you wanted when

You were my age now I play in front of thousands

Only fucking difference with our outcome

I wouldn't listen when you said "settle down"

Or you said "get a house" or you said "mellow out"

I wouldn't listen when you said "have kids"

'Cos I knew I fucking ain't going out like this, nah


[Chorus]

Don't listen, they say "settle down"

Time to get a house or it's time to mellow out

No, and it's time to have kids

And I ain't going out like this, no nooo