After recess/soon be going home/After supper/YTV The Zone/Got a headache/staring at the screen/Pizza pockets/and cookie dough ice cream/Nineteen/ninety/A decade still alive/In the backyard of my mind/Nineteen/ninety/In the basement of my life is/a VHS of all my wasted time/Few years later/it's all gone to shit/Feeling helpless/ feeling sick of it/Girls in English/think that I'm a freak/Girls in French class/think I'm speaking Greek/Nineteen-ninety/A decade still alive/In the backyard of my mind/Nineteen-ninety/In the basement of my life there's a VHS/A VHS of all my time spent/The tape is busted, I can't rewind it/When I jam it in the VCR deck/It chews it up and spits it out/Shredded mental sauerkraut/Was wasting time what it was all about?/Nineteen-ninety/Nineteen-ninety/Nineteen-ninety/Nineteen.../Nineteen-ninety/A decade still alive/In the backyard of my mind/Nineteen-ninety/In the basement of my life is/a VHS of all my wasted time
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