[Intro: David Parkin]:

(So if I get into this thing, I'd love to go all the way

I'd love to make it, make it onto that big stage

Have the curtain go up, see... fifteen-hundred expectant faces staring back at me

I don't think there'd be any greater thrill in this world.)

[Verse 1]:

I just want to feel like a normal human being

Is that too much to ask?

I want to be treated the same way everyone else is

But I guess that time has passed

[Chorus]:

I'm ashamed to say it, but my five-year plan is to start writing it out

And I'm ashamed to tell it to my five-year plan, but time is running out

[Verse 2]:

You can tell me what you're meant to

With no soul behind it at all

The backhanded niceties

Are wearing thin and getting old

Say what you really want to

And then we'll see

If you're truly scared

To offend me

[Chorus]:

I'm ashamed to say it, but my five-year plan is to start writing it out

And I'm ashamed to tell it to my five-year plan, but time is running out

[Outro]:

(Instrumental)