[Intro]

So slick so mean so pretty so chill

So self-actualized

I don’t know how to be cool like u

I don’t know how to be cool like u

I’m off-putting I’m loud and weird

But every time I get lost I end up here

See I don’t know how to be cool like u

I don’t know how to be cool like u

I see pain I don’t push it down

You see pain u say pain’s all around

Yeah I don’t know how to be cool like u

I don’t ever wanna be cool like u

Life advice is a Friday night

The story sounds best when it ends in a fight

But I don’t ever wanna be cool like u

I don’t ever wanna

[Verse 1]

I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax

Like a kid who’s mom is antivax

I got a view that I call parallax

Alan Pakula with the camera snap

Very bad like Cam Diaz

Depressive since a foot tall

Like Charlie Brown

I never kicked it over football

Puts it all into perspective

When you should bawl/ball

But second guessing is a cancer call it wrongcallogy

And in the long haul

We are a million new babies that are blooming for each other

A million little daisies all watching the lawnmower

Yelling at it from a distance we convinced ourselves was safe

See if you can dent the void

Without blowing up the space

I exaggerate and rant to put hype on my favorite cause

Knock up the words

So when I stop talking it’s a pregnant pause

Our best ideas will stay in bars

Raise em like we’re lazy fathers

We forget to stay involved

Mommy told me I was special

Reject that on a moral level too hard and you overpedal

I’m not special

But we’re exceptional

Or maybe just cells in the same jail

One organism with shared memories of Oregon Trail

(or at least Halo)

He was no angel

They demonize every baby that they fail

So is it special?

Well then

Special edition limited print it’ll have its moment

Until it sells out

Its own story

Like retail/re-tell

So sell me self care

Lotions by the basketful

I just see screaming lambs

I just see capital

U just see destiny

One that you manifested

You’ll be your parents soon

They can help u invest it

Tweet on current affairs

Till brunch on the beach

Pray for the homeless

But please get the fuck off my street

I love that your art is so easy to understand

It’s something to eat

While I’m stayin busy hoping money’s something love can defeat

[Refrain]

I don't ever wanna be cool like u

I don't ever wanna be cool like u

[Verse 2]

All I see is valley brats and alleycats

Lines outside and inside the bathroom yeah

Starfuckers always bad news yeah

Girls with stupid tattoos askin’ if they can grab a few snacks

Out of the green room

Might even think of myself as a failure until I see u

They climb over backs and turn a blind eye

When the friends of the headlining act trigger a staff member

Into a flashback when your group pushed her against the wall

Because she couldn’t seat u

Never comment on what’s wrong unless it’s in common with where the convo is goin’

Slow down progress not to threaten your ascendancy to boss bitch

Socialist till you got shit

Then shut the door call the locksmith

Pick up the laundry not dog shit

Get mad at your barista

For being such a slow pour and it’s incredible

How life is an incredible bore if

U keep flexing and they don’t see

How incredible yours is

I’m givin directions to tourists like they’re headed for war

U never reform but

I’ll always be the penitent whore

Watching the cool kids pretend to love who they are

I’m never gonna be cool like u

I don’t ever