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Won’t Listen When Lyrics by Drapht

The Life of Riley

2011

[Verse 1]
Yesterday I was 21 and going on 28
Many ways still the little spaghetti faced
Lemonade making from the generation
Raising kids on killing and masturbation
Like Jason and Jenna Jamieson fornicated
Made them a little alien naming him Damien
And I'm trading the way that you think
And when the government contaminates the water you drink
String up the puppets, roll out the robots march to the
Same beat, so they know not what I'm saying
It's the businessman in the suit and tie
And the differences with you and I

[Chorus]
Won't listen when you tell me, time to settle down
Time to get a house or it's time to mellow out
No, and it's time to have kids
And I ain't going out like this, no nooo

[Verse 2]
See the robots march to the same beat
Same sheep all peddling the same beast
Fate leaves you reeling in the women
Don't have a dream, you're back to the beginning
Living your lie, living your little mid-life crisis
Stylers of Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus
Life is more than marriage and having kids
24 with the mortgage, divorcing at 36? Nah
Come on now, nah, not me, not mean
Party non-stop like Tommy Lee and the Mötley
Crüe, you don't find youth at a swap-meet
Not seeing friends, you forgot me. Ask for
One beer, I'm asking just for one call
But you're too busy wasting that one life
Know everyone fears, living alone
If you pick up the phone at home and there's no one and not

[Chorus]
Won't listen when he tell me, time to settle down
Time to get a house or it's time to mellow out
No, and it's time to have kids
And I ain't going out like this, no nooo
Won't listen, no, listen when

[Verse 3]
Nah, you know why?
'Cos I never liked school growing up or showing up
Mouse or a nah 'cos I never liked no one, nah
No wonder I never knew enough, never stuck
To a desk or till I'm gone, you like this when you were young?
My dad would try to lure mum to fix me
He needed a break like girls on a fixie
He pleaded with Ma, "The kid needs a doctor."
What for? 'Cos I found porno in your sock drawer?
Kid's got a lockjaw, needs confidence
It a being understep, I know what you wanted when
You were my age now I play in front of thousands
Only fucking difference with our outcome
I wouldn't listen when you said "settle down"
Or you said "get a house" or you said "mellow out"
I wouldn't listen when you said "have kids"
'Cos I knew I fucking ain't going out like this, nah

[Chorus]
Don't listen, they say "settle down"
Time to get a house or it's time to mellow out
No, and it's time to have kids
And I ain't going out like this, no nooo
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Drapht

Drapht

About “Won’t Listen When” by Drapht

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"Won’t Listen When" appears on "The Life of Riley" in 2011.

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