Lyrics:<br /><br />You Know What They Say<br /><br />A Daniel comes to commit a crime<br />A chain is only as strong as its biggest bolt<br />Just like the diamond in the smoothness<br />Is a knight in shining cloth that puts<br />A millstone around my back because<br />A picture is worth a thousand frames<br />Put on a sheep in fox’s clothing<br />Since all’s fair in hate and peace<br />As the apple of my tongue <br />Is as busy as a grasshopper<br />And is as dead as the sparrow<br /><br />Please don’t think these are all directed at you<br />I’m probably not telling you anything that’s new<br />If I’ve done anything to you that wasn’t right<br />You know what they say<br />That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite<br /><br />The master of all trades, jack of none<br />Is getting in trouble by raising Abel<br />And robbing Paul to pay Petter<br />Which causes him to fall off the bandwagon<br />The sword is mightier than the pen so<br />Take it with a pinch of pepper<br />Just to play the angel’s advocate<br />Because absolute submission corrupts absolutely<br />So I’d prick up your eyeballs to<br />Pull someone else up by their shoestrings<br />And really push the letter in order <br />To put the donkey before the buggy<br /><br />I hope you don’t mind reading what I wrote<br />I’ve been trying to turn my action into a noun<br />Where the snow is black and the rain is white<br />You know what they say<br />That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite<br /><br /><br />A small fish in a big lake<br />Can go to heaven in an air balloon<br />Since it’s your path or the bike path<br />As life is clean, sophisticated, and long<br />You have to fly under the sun<br />And skate onto this eternal coil where<br />There’s always a free dinner laying around somewhere<br />Hanging in the fur of the bear that licked you<br />Which is one of the things that drum during the daylight<br />As fiction is weirder than the truth<br />That is easy lies the head that wears the robes<br />Of the man who uses a ball ping hammer to carve Mt. Everest<br /><br />I know that you can’t quite get the handle<br />But in my opinion it’s not that much of a scandal<br />Don’t blame me, it’s just that my ime is finite<br />You know what they say<br />That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite<br /><br />The watched kettle always burns<br />A little dry under the nose<br />What the devil joined together let no woman put asunder<br />And why should God keep all the best poems<br />So take up a step or two as far as I know<br />It was in the first place I looked<br />Be sure to strike while the anvil has cooled<br />Since the leopard always changes its spots<br />And lets the left hand gain full knowledge of the right<br />As the divided trailer props itself up<br />And you’ve hit the screw right at the bottom<br />Since your absence makes my lungs grow weaker<br /><br />In my opinion most phrases are said incorrectly<br />A lot of words are used to get to it indirectly<br />But if you let me I’ll try to understand your plight<br />You know what they say<br />That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite<br />
