The Nail Songtext
von Do Nothing

I was born in an open field
Waiting to be handed the phone
I keep my hand on the truck
Longer than anybody else
Sleep on the wheel all the way home

I know a guy who can do that
Better that it′s ever been done
He's got a house on the hill and he knows Japanese
And he can tie a cherry in a knot with his tongue

He says I′m so tired of being right all the time
I got this perfect life that I don't really like
I lay down on the floor looking up at the light
I got near-infinite patience in my pocket


Make me an offer
I just wanna change
For an hour
Familiar faces
Coming out of the rain
When i'm holding the hammer
Everything looks like a nail

Well my old lady called me a son of a gun
When she caught me with the jug in my hand
But once you slip a note in the machine it′s gone
Apparently you never get ′em back

Extreme noise, terror, hurt, panic, death, shame
That's a pack of wild dogs that a bone won′t tame
Cause once you start singing for the big sky dad
You'll never sing another note for me again

He says I′m so tired of being right all the time
I got this perfect life that I don't really like
I lay down on the floor looking up at the light
I got near-infinite patience in my pocket


Make me an offer
I just wanna change
For an hour
Familiar faces
Coming out of the rain
When i′m holding the hammer
Everything looks like a nail
Like a nail

It don't matter what the old song said
When I arrive they'll be laying down red
It don′t matter what the old song said
Day I arrive i′ll be laying down dead

One particular lie among the many I've told
Quit yelling at me, put your dad on the phone
I got my hook in the water
Let me do what I can

Make me something I ain′t
Don't wanna be what I am
Make me an offer
I just wanna change
For an hour
Familiar faces
Coming out of the rain
When I′m holding the hammer
Everything looks like a nail