"CHIMES"      (Extended Warranties)

To human beings the package was sold

To wake up & find themselves growin’ old

Great battles waged & th’ damage condoned

Cause it’s th’ only game they’ve ever known

To die in their sweat, with all their regrets…

That was th’ highest road… they even had left

*Bridge:

I know what it means to procrastinate

Life was passin’ me by while I slept late

Ah…  Yes, I embellished a story or two

But I swear I never did… when it came to you                                                 

When it came to you

**Chorus: (softer now)

Can’t really expect you to understand

How a person can die & come back again

No more cryin’… with old memories

Cause ya know life ain’t got…  Extended Warranties

I ignored th’ mirror while I grew old

Watched rage & guilt… race through my Soul

Years weren’t wasted… just lost in time…

Like th’ tones that play from my old wind chimes

And these ragged scrapbooks embrace my lies

As if I might have been there… in real life

*Bridge:

Mass consciousness could not affect me

I thought I knew that intellectually

Somebody’s been livin’ inside my skin

 I wonder who that was…  Where have I been?

 Where have I been?

**Chorus: (softer now)

Can’t really expect you to understand

How I cremated myself & I’m back again

You know it ain’t no real tragedy    

Cause life ain’t got no…  Extended Warranties

Now, th’ real & th’ unreal continues to be

Balanced on my own fragile sanity

Th’ load I’d chose to carry’ was too heavy this time

Just one tiny spark…  Could I find in my eyes...

So I blew on it… & now the puzzle just fits

It’s a game of tag… & guess who’s it?

*Bridge:

Why did I ever think I had to please?

Everyone on Earth… but my God & me?

Why did I believe…  I had to do?

One single damn thing…  I didn’t choose?

No, I didn’t choose

**Chorus: (softer now)

Don’t really expect you to understand

I scattered my ashes & I’m here again

Stop givin’ it that old third degree

You know…Life ain’t got no Extended Warranties  

Well, I guess this dance is about th’ same  

But now th’ music feels all rearranged

And when I put it in context, I realized…

I’d been sufferin’ & cryin’ for th’ whole worlds’ lies

One thing is certain…  I may be slow

But I’m finally a woman…  I’m proud to know

*Bridge:

I procrastinated at an early age

Never payin’ th’ debts I didn’t wanna pay

Could’a had fame at my fingertips

Guess Cause & Effect… had me in its grip

In Karma’s grip

**Chorus:

Don’t really expect you to understand

I scattered my ashes & I’m back again

No more cryin’ bout what life should be

Cause ya know Life ain’t got… no Extended Warranties

So just for today, I’ll dance & I’ll sing

Cause I got a whole new set of Chimes to ring

 © Gail Jennings 2004

    Gailkan Records