Just What They Told Me

i guess what concerns me the most
we're getting any younger so we like to boast
are the cracks and fissures splintering our lovely lives
our acceptance of the shiny brand-new kitchen knives
so i have decided not to live that way
i still behave in public
and i don't confuse the night with day
and i'm better off please don't say
we know you'll never live without
you have no way to keep it out
i pray that i'll be saved
before too long
another two or three days
and i'll get it wrong
a patch of thistle
measuring our early grave
with waxy gleam
we stroll along the colonnade
and i have decided not to live that way
i still behave in public
and i don't confuse the night with day
and i'm better off please don't say
we know you'll never live without
you have no way to keep it out
i did just what they told me
i'm just trying to make my way
i did just what they told me