[Lyric] Ignoring Me Was Fine (Geoffery Reed)

I stared into the window of a dairy famers wife
As she sew the trousers of a man she knew she loved
And I love to wax philippics as an angry tiger roars
And I force the stuffing back into my glove
I could have been dismissive of the wife I call me own
When she told me she felt footsteps down her spine
And our vows were said in silence and I marched her down the isle
And her mother told her avoiding me was finе
She told her that avoiding me was finе

High-ho the stereo
Is playing me a song I love to hear
Hell no, I will not go
I may never quite get there
Cuz I’m always staying here

I took a tour of colleges when I was just a lad
And my father told me not to waste my time
He said collegial knowledge wouldn’t get me very far
And to get to digging ditches so that I could earn a dime
I didn’t listen to him and studied every night
I had mentors, I had scholars I had books
But my old man was right cuz all the knowledge in the world
Won’t get back the money stolen by those crooks
High-ho the stereo
Is playing me a song I love to hear
Hell no, I will not go
I may never quite get there
Cuz I’m always staying here

I starting cashing welfare checks
I started drinking gin
And hitting every whorehouse in this town
I’d love ‘em and I’d leave em
And I’d tell them not to cry
Then I’d run out of the hotel and I’d burn the whole place down
I settled down in Dallas with a family of my own
And I opened up an office right downtown
I never made a penny ‘cuz I never learned to save
I’m in a cardboard coffin buried two feet underground