All I Wanna Do
All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,
says the man next to me, out of nowhere.
It’s a propos of nothing.
And he says his name is William,
but I’m sure it’s Bill, or Billy, or Mac, or Buddy.
And he’s damn ugly to me.
And I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole life.
He’s drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch breaks, hosing and scrubbing
as best they can in skirts and suits
They drive their shiny Lexuses and Buicks
Back to the phone company and the record store too.
Well, they’re nothing like Bill and me
Cause All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
I like my caffeine buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
And he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his big fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out
and he’s watching the bottles of Bud
as they spin on the floor
A happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
But All I Wanna Do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Otherwise the bar is ours,
and the day and the night,
and the car wash too,
the matches and the Buds
and the clean and dirty cars,
the sun and the moon.
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
I got a feeling the party has just begun
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
I won’t tell you that you’re the only one
All I Wanna Do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard