I Could Laugh (Live at DK’s, 1988) The 77s

[Spoken Intro]
We'd like to leave you with this last number. Because you are beautiful. We'd like to thank you for coming to our concert. Hopefully, y'all go out and buy the record and bug these people that own this place, they'll bring us back, and we'll come back and play the exact same concert. No, hopefully by then we'll have some more relevant and pertinent songs for your liking. Thank you very much.

[Verse 1]
Mama don't understand
She wants to hold my hand
Night and day
And she don't like my clothes, and
They're wearing thin
On her nerves
And she don't like my hair, and
My glorious crown
Brings her down
And she won't take me serious
Think I'll join the circus
Be a clown

[Chorus 1]
And they'll all laugh
They'll all laugh
They'll all laugh
But it's not funny, no

[Verse 2]
And I'm restless
Wanna bust out of my skin
Got a rocket
In my pocket
Got no fuel
No charted course
Got no direction
No, they did not give me those in school
Yes, I've been a fool for cool
But no kind of hair, no shoes, no jacket's
Gonna help me to hack it, hack it
Hack it to pieces, man, I've had it
And you can have it