Good God, I Wish I Cared Lyrics

I'm sorry for the lack of sincerity

It's just I don't deal in the real world

But here take my mythology

It's all I've got left

Can you put a price on that

Because it feels like it for sale

Pin me up against the wall

And stamp out every beautiful detail

And I have left my heart on the floor

Of a bedroom I'll never go back in,

Where i spent every night staring at your ceiling

Feeling used, wondering what you're feeling

Well something was missing by the time I woke

Perhaps I've gone as far as I've dared

You've got me in stitches but there wasn't a joke

Good, God, I wished I cared

I know you can hear the mercury in my mouth

but that's just the poison on my mind

I picked it up as I headed south

With Sixteen stories and all the souls I could find

You ask on the phone how far I got

I say some town I'm just passing through

The scene is great, the streets are busy

With Venuses and motorcycle crews

And the leather boys are running crazy

Outside my hotel window

One shouts what is lost shall be found

and all I see is mine

He sees me alone and says join us

But I just stood there and stared

There's glory in dying for the boys

Good God I wished I cared

I got a drink with him one time

He told me I'd be there the night he died.

Now the sun is setting on a bar room evening

And he's caught in a robbery outside

The street rang with shots as he hid

In the frame of the infirmary door

With nothing and hope, he puts up a fight

But the gun to his heart pushed him to the floor

The sparks of life left and I was alone

I finished my drink but I had nowhere to go

The bartender asked if I had anyone waiting for me

I thought of you, and answered no

You can see it in the poor boy's eyes he was scared

As he took three shots to the chest

Then two more just to be sure he was dead

Good God, I wished I cared