Hey, Hey, Hey - Chris Smither

You know I am not a prophet

I wouldn’t be one if you paid me

But it doesn’t take a lot to see

Just where you’re headed lately

Pretty soon you’re gonna ask me

How come the life you lead

Doesn’t make you very happy

Or satisfy your needs

When you talk about your needs as though

You know just what they are

Well, in fact to really know them

Is like traveling to a star

It takes so long you die along the way, hey hey

So I say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey»

Just say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey»

Just say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey»

C’mon, sit down

We’re gonna talk about illusion

How everything is made of it

Well, no wonder life’s confusin'

All this stuff that we take for granted

So solid to the touch

Is just a concrete indication

That we love ourselves too much

But if we don’t love ourselves, you say

Who will?

Whatever for?

And I say, that’s a better question

Than the one you asked before

But the answer is still just as far away

So I say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey»

Let go of all of this

Just forget about your reason

You can leave it all behind you

You can start another season

With all these silly little fictions

Are gonna take you by surprise

If you see them in the daylight

And finally realize

That you told them to yourself

And nobody else was listening

You’ll be standing broken hearted

Like a disillusioned Christian

With your mouth open but nothin' left to say

So just say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey»

We’ll all say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey»

Let’s just say, «Hey, hey, hey»

Ain’t nothin' left to say, well, «Hey, hey, hey»

Just say, «Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey»