PREACHING FROM A CHAIR

I'm sorry I don't hate the world I'm afraid that I'm not disturbed I'm sorry that I don't do drugs, I hope you understand I can't talk about my life in hell Or a suicide attempt that didn't go well No life of crime, no misery, what you see is what you get And I don't believe in dwelling on the darker side There's enough bad news on the television every night So I don't need some little punk who's the latest star Telling me over and over again Life's such a drag when you're in a band What is it coming to when everyone's talking through their hat And we've heard it all before What happened to honesty? The way that it looks to me Is everybody's in it trying to yet somewhere And trying to justify it, preaching from a chair oh yeah Please forgive me it the clothes ain't right I wouldn't want you hanging with an uncool guy No flannel shirt and no tattoos, maybe I should grow a beard? Don't you tell me what I oughta think Which cigarettes to smoke, and what I oughta drink Don't judge me by the way I look cos the clothes don't make the man I'm not about to be a slave in a book of rules Don't wanna spend my life trying to be somebody else I'd be wrong to believe in every word that I ever read You can't fool all the people all of the time And one man's opinion's another man's lie The makers of taste will be patronising you and me forever And it's always been the same You'll enter the twilight zone if you don't keep your mind your own I shouldn't let it get to me but I don't care I can't stomach bullshit, when it's preaching from a chair oh yeah I'm sorry that I like the sun I'm sorry to say I don't wanna own a gun Cos if my number's up that's alright, sometime we all got to go So many versions of the world outside Reality is getting hard to find So many people with an axe to grind It's hard to know who to believe Don't lecture me, until you know what the truth is Take a good look inside before you criticize everyone else Your jealousy ain't enough of a reason To justify telling me where I went wrong So don't try to do it Cos all you ever do is sing the same old song And no one wants to hear Preaching from a chair oh yeah...