Homeless By Choice Lyrics

The sun is beating down

On a lawn that's so well-manicured

"Hon the dogs have shat in

Every corner of your grandma's yard"

Rochelle jumped five feet up in the air

And I can't remember if Mason and the girls

Were even there (who really cares)

The thought of having nowhere to go

Years ago, would make me cry

Now that I've been homeless by choice

Rejoice mother, I survived

Is your opinion of me really so low?

To think I'd rather just die on the streets

Instead of coming home you were wrong

But no matter what we did there was no saving you and me

You might've changed the lock, but I went and changed the key

Don't cry for me cause

I've been figuring myself out

I am always filled with doubt and jealousy

Cause it seemed to me

Everyone had it so easy

It turns out it's not just this hard for me

Well NEWS FLASH, dumbass

(NEWS FLASH dumbass)

That's privilege talking

Then we made a move right

Around the time my car went south

Back when we lived inside a

Shack outside of the broken house

That they never did find the time to fix

I am hard pressed to think of a time

When I wasn't on the skids even as a kid

And looking back now on all of the things we said and did

Just trying to tell the difference 'tween reality and the fantasies I hid

So don't cry for me cause

I've been going to therapy

And I've been cutting down on my verbosity (not really)

And it seemed to me

Everyone was ignoring me

Turns out they got their own lives to lead

Hey NEWS FLASH, dumbass

(NEWS FLASH dumbass)

That's not jealousy that's envy

There we were just living inside of grandma's halfway home

Back then all we wanted was just to be left alone

Don't you scrape the walls or get ash on the patio stone

You and me and Rosie sliding through life in a halfway home