Making Things Right

by Temple and Stimson

INST INTRO

: All I do isn't good enough, but I try.
Now I can't change fast enough
To make it work out right.

I wanna go back
To my little cat.
I want everything right.

You tell me not to sing in a band,
But I've just got to be who I am.
I'm a person.
I'm a person.
I'm a human, and I need to be free, yeah.
I'm sick of being treated like I'm somebody's slave --
Like I've got no say --
Like I'm just in the way.
And I can say "I love you" if I want to.

I'm sorry if I hurt you at all.
I'd rather put my head through a wall.
You're somebody.
You're somebody.
You're a person. You deserve to be free, yeah.
I'd never want to hurt you, 'cause you're nobody's fool.
You can be so cool.
You're a rare kind of jewel.
And you don't have to laugh unless you want to.

: All I do isn't good enough, but I try.
Now I can't change fast enough
To make it work out right.

: At your company Christmas party I wore my favorite thong,
And they liked it.
It was the thousandth thing that I've done wrong,
And you...didn't like it.
I trimmed my beard.
I shaved my head.
You said you wanted something else instead,
And you...didn't like it.

You tell me I'm not your kind of man,
But I've just got to be who I can.
I'm a prisoner.
I'm a prisoner.
We all prisoners, and we need to be free, yeah.
It's time to say goodbye because we're so far apart.
And I'm not so smart,
But you have my heart,
Which you don't have to break unless you want to.

I wanna go back
To my little cat.
I want everything right.

: I trimmed my beard.
I shaved my head.
You said you wanted something else instead,
And you...didn't like it.

: All I do isn't good enough, but I try.
Now I can't change fast enough
To make it work out right.

CODA