Mr. Should - Cotton Mather

You’d think

That everything would fall apart

If you only listened to your heart

I beg, take a chance

It’s a pain

Explaining everything to you

In the hopes that we can make it through

The filter of your experience

And are you proud of that invention?

Are you running from the good life, Mr. Should?

Are you struggling just to get, by Mr. Should?

And if you’d rather only survive, Mr. Should

Better luck next life, Mr. Should

You could make

A beautiful thing be true

If you let her get close to you

Be once the boy and twice the man

How could you

Think she wasn’t quite what you deserved?

It’s like your sentenced and determined to serve

But that girl could be your escape plan

And do you love incarceration?

Are you running from the good life, Mr. Should?

Are you struggling just to get, by Mr. Should?

And if you’d rather only survive, Mr. Should

Better luck next life, Mr. Should

And everybody has the right to decide

How to make a miserable affair of their lives

As if waking up wasn’t enough of a fight

You had to go and choose the wrong girl

But pretty soon you started letting us down

By overlooking all the love you’d found

I don’t think I’ll be sticking around

This is not an infinite world

Mr. Should

It’d be nice to see you when you have time

But don’t hold your breath, I’m not holding mine

Maybe you’ll get lucky and I’ll blow you a kiss

You should think

A little bit about how things exist

I think there’s something you must have missed

It’s nothing that you’re gonna find on one of your lists

Oh

Are you running from the good life, Mr. Should?

Are you struggling just to get, by Mr. Should?

And if you’d rather only survive, Mr. Should

Better luck next life, Mr. Should

Mr. Should

Mr. Should