waste

- art by Cory Godbey

Don't want to be an actor/pretending on the stage
Don't want to be a writer/with my thoughts out on the page
Don't want to be a painter/'cause everyone comes to look
Don't want to be anything/where my life's an open book

A dream it's true,
But I'd see it through;
If I could be -
Wasting my time/with you

Don't want to be a farmer/working in the sun
Don't want to be an outlaw/always on the run
Don't want to be a climber/reaching for the top
Don't want to be anything/where I don't know when to stop

A dream it's true,
But I'd see it through;
If I could be -
Wasting my time/with you

So if I'm inside your head
Don't believe what you might have read
You'll see what I might have said
To hear it

Come waste your time with me -
Come waste your time with me.

-- Phish