B.O.B - John Doe lyrics

rate me

Seems like your heart stops working

The minute they close the curtain

You take off your mask and take off your costume

And if anyone asks, you’re taking a small break

You’re drinking some coffee

But everyone knows what you’re doing

Seems like the bus moves slower

Just ‘cause you got somewhere to go

So you take a few pills in Beverly Hills

But if anyone asks you’ve got a prescription

You’ve got an addiction

Who do you think that you’re fooling?

John Doe, I just want the John I know

Once you put the drinks on hold

Maybe you could come back home

John Doe

Everybody’s addicted to something

Everybody gotta grip on to something

Even if it’s just a field of responsive of appeal

Maybe once, maybe twice, maybe hundreds of times

Hundreds of times, without it, it’s hard to function at times

You race to the bottom of every single bottle

As if there was someone or something to find

You struggle in your mind and you tell yourself lie after lie

Till you get to the point when it’s no longer private

The people that you work with notice the signs

When you walk in a room you can notice the quiet

So you break off the silence, you say you been at the gym

But the way that you look can’t blame on a diet

So what you hiding?

John Doe, I just want the John I know

Once you put the drinks on hold

Maybe you could come back home

John Doe

I probably had too many things, smashed too many freaks

Had too much to drive, I mean, had too much to drink

Left the club, ended up in custody

Random drug test, passed it luckily

My girl put up with me ‘cause she want me steadily

With a woman up onto me, I told her, “Wait, it ain’t what it look like

I must’ve slipped and fell, clumsy me”

Well, at least I admit it ‘cause the worst you could do

Is to do it and not be man enough to say that you did it

That’s just how you prevent it

Well, I ain’t no different, I love all the money, the fame

And the parties with beautiful women

I spent so much time as an underground artist

‘Cause I was afraid to succumb to the business and what I’d become

But that what you judge you become

The path with the greatest resistance

That’s how the tables can turn when they pivot

And change your perspective and flip your entire position

My whole life I’ve been dying and wishing

To live in this period, everything’s possible

When I told them my dreams they just said it ain’t logical

Now I can see it, it’s optical

John Doe, I just want the John I know

Once you put the drinks on hold

Maybe you could come back home

John Doe