Free Time Lyrics

I won't ever get used to this
A blank spot
temptations
do resist.
The other shoe will drop
just an aftershock
Nice hat; you look like a referee
Nice watch; but why are you timing me?
Its spring has come unwound
I was not out of bounds
This is not out
I drew that line
when I was handed free time.

Bells clang
I guess it's a holiday
Did that rhyme?
Shit! I'm a poet now.
So give me stuff for free
and if I do somehow
into the soft whites
of beautiful lies
stare down
stare
I don't apologize
I've never been the kind
to close an open mind
so leave behind all that extra free time.

Picked a lock and hopped some fences
that won't do
Burning these = a bad example
finding out = a Roman candle

If I'm pale, it doesn't mean something's wrong
If I'm blue, I just held my breath too long
So if you wouldn't mind
just do the deal and I'll be real sublime
when I get all your free time.

Michael Penn - Free-for-All

Sep 1992

1. Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In)
2. Free Time
3. Coal
4. Seen The Doctor
5. By The Book
6. Drained
7. Slipping My Mind
8. Strange Season
9. Bunker Hill
10. Now We're Even