Obtain

[Verse 1]
You own the house now
The one you grew up in
I say it’s got charm
You say it fell to shit
And anyway
You need the cash

[Verse 2]
No keys in the fake rock
Or underneath the mat
Your Mom changed the locks
The time she caught your Dad
Out with the girl
From Auntie Anne’s

[Verse 3]
Your brother rolls up
In his green sedan
Weed smoke and leather
Two of his bonehead friends
Stare at your ass
Honking the horn

[Verse 4]
Start in on the kitchen
Sanitize the sink
Decades of neglect
Are caked on everything
Impossible
To scrub off

[Verse 5]
I label the boxes
That you stole from work:
Keep, donate, landfill
Old precious heirlooms, and burn
I’m trying to
Help how I can

[Chorus]
Everything we want
Becomes another thing we have
Becomes extra weight to carry
Becomes something else to move

[Post-Chorus]
We were once as light as air

[Outro]
We live and we obtain
We live and we rapidly accumulate
Then we buckle from the load
We live and we obtain