Things You Don't Have To Do - The Peter Malick Group, Norah Jones

I walk down the diamond studded concrete canyon

Nobody looked me in the eye

Tried to fly to the moon

Only made it to the sky

I was looking, looking for

That had a single friend

Searching for a clear connection

Without a digital send

Ain’t it just a little scary sometimes

To find the lies that you know to be true

I’ll find you smiling about

Things you don’t have to do

Bill doesn’t call me anymore

I hear he’s found religion

Big haired blonde apprentice beautician

And all the words and gesticulations that came before

Don’t seem to mean a thing

You can feel fine to drop a dime

If you’re ever hanging by a string

Ain’t it just a little scary sometimes

To find the lies that you know to be true

I’ll find you smiling about

Things you don’t have to do

I hear voices crying out

Echoes on the boulevard

Contentious rambling incantations

Of some senile bard

There’s too much going on around here

To keep my head from spinning

And this constant acceleration

Blurs any ties to the beginning

Ain’t it just a little scary sometimes

To find the lies that you know to be true

I’ll find you smiling about

Things you don’t have to do