A mistaking for power on a lyric sheet Makes the whole room pin-drop silent Perhaps the bleakest thing I’ve ever written So incredibly dirty and violent And I try to defend my case Blame it on my wrong headspace People say it’s just a phase And soon my whole world’s gonna change Till then I’m waiting Ramble on and ramble on And babble about Babylon Tell me that I have nothing to worry about And that I just have to stay strong Leave your pity at the door When you come into my home Cause if you are willing to congregate with me Then I don't have to focus on being alone A friend of a friend wants to be better friends And I drive them away with cynicism And I judge them for their semi-harmless actions And a pre-prepubescent rage starts to fire up within them You told me I was mean And I told you that it didn’t matter And if you ever see my face again Your perception of reality is gonna shatter Into pieces Ramble on and ramble on And babble about Babylon Tell me that I have nothing to worry about And that I just have to stay strong Leave your pity at the door When you come into my home Cause if you are willing to congregate with me Then I don't have to focus on being alone There is a pawn shop by my ex’s house And about a year ago they moved a block down And in the last six months she’s gone to visit them Asking for a her that we now call him And they’re going to prom together And I’m going to the city alone But the dark wet mean old streets of Chicago Mean more than your heart when I think about home And I try to fall asleep Thinking of things that I wanna keep I’m in the last five weeks of this And I just cannot wait until summer begins It’ll be crazy Ramble on and ramble on And babble about Babylon Tell me that I have nothing to worry about And that I just have to stay strong Leave your pity at the door When you come into my home Cause if you are willing to congregate with me Then I don't have to focus on being alone

Go to sleep young man and arise when the hour is early And when the sun comes up you will be free of all your worry It’s okay to admit you don’t sleep in only one position ‘Cause everybody has their moments of tossin’ and turnin’ And when the night comes ‘round and you’re tired again And you’ve been the most alive that you could’ve been Dream of spending warm days in Arizona And repeat all of the lines that JD told ya Let your voice be loud and clear and ring true Appreciate all the good that comes to you Look towards the future, and don’t get wrapped up in others Or everything you’ve mentioned about past and present lovers Be optimistic and stop being so myopic Like when voices get quiet and fast while talking about controversial topics You don’t need the attention of others to up and boost your ego Stop glorifying old and faded memories like you were Tarantino And when the pessimism starts to eat you Don’t let it just up and defeat you Dream of every cool binge spring in Chicago Keep your mind open and let it drain out all your sorrow Feel the warmth and comfort of your home town There’s not enough water for you to want to drown So when you think it’s bad that you toss and turn There’s not enough fire for you to want to burn Everything will be all right, just look into the light You’ve made it this damn far, put up one damn fine fight You just can’t lose it now, your fate will come around But look out for it, or else it won’t exist So just exist