Think - Once You Understand lyrics

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Things get a little easier<br />

Once you understand<br />

Things get a little easier<br />

Once you understand... <br />

<br />

I'll be expecting you to<br />

Get a haircut by Friday<br />

(Forget it, Dad)<br />

(That won't change anything)<br />

Forget nothing, you'll do as I say<br />

As long as you're living in my house<br />

<br />

He knows I'm not feeling well<br />

And yet he doesn't take one<br />

Second out to help his mother<br />

His only concern is for himself<br />

<br />

(Come on, Ma)<br />

(What do you want from me)<br />

Don't argue with your mother<br />

Just shut up and listen<br />

<br />

But, Mom, all my<br />

Friends will be there<br />

(I said, no, you can't go)<br />

But why<br />

(I don't want you<br />

In that neighborhood)<br />

Why, what's wrong<br />

With that neighborhood<br />

(I don't like the kind of<br />

People living there)<br />

Why, what's wrong with them<br />

(Nevermind)<br />

(Some day, you'll thank me)<br />

<br />

Are you sure no one kept you<br />

Company tonight while<br />

You were babysitting<br />

(What's that supposed to mean)<br />

Just curious<br />

(Admit it, Mom, you don't trust me)<br />

<br />

Where are you going now<br />

(To my friend's house)<br />

Don't you have things<br />

To do in the house<br />

Don't you have any homework<br />

Why don't you sit down<br />

And read a book (oh, ma)<br />

<br />

Don't oh, Ma, me<br />

You're wasting your life<br />

Away with the foolish things<br />

(What are you talking about<br />

How about your bridge club<br />

And your ladies groups<br />

And your parties and<br />

Your daytime programs<br />

What about all that)<br />

That's different<br />

<br />

Ma, I'll be home at eleven<br />

(You better be home at ten or<br />

Don't bother to come home at all)<br />

<br />

When I was your age<br />

I was working twelve hours a day<br />

Six days a week helping to pay<br />

For the food and the rent<br />

(I don't understand, what's<br />

That got to do with me)<br />

If you can't figure that out<br />

For yourself, you're stupid<br />

<br />

Hey, Dad<br />

Did you see my new guitar<br />

I joined a group<br />

(Son, there's a little bit more<br />

To life than joining a group<br />

And playing the guitar)<br />

Yeah, Dad, what is there to life<br />

<br />

Mister Cook (yes)<br />

You have a son named Robert<br />

Robert Cook, age seventeen (yes)<br />

I'm sorry, Mister Cook<br />

You better come down<br />

To the station house<br />

You son is dead (dead, how)<br />

He died of an overdose (oh, God)