take your cautionary tales and take your incremental gain and all the sycophanric games and throw 'em all away burn your t.v. in your yard and gather 'round it with your friends and warm your hands upon the fire and start again take the story you've been sold the lies that justify the pain the guilt that weighs upon your soul and throw 'em all away tear up the calendar you bought and throw the pieces to the sky confetti falling down like rain like a parade to usher in your life take the dreams that should've died the ones that kept you lying awake when you should have been all right and throw 'em all away with the time i waste on the life i never had i could have turned myself into a better man there is nothing you can buy there is nothing you can save to fill the hole inside your heart so throw it all away help me to empty out this house the wool i've gathered all these days and thought i couldn't do without and throw it all away