3 O'Clock Things
by AJR

Album: OK Orchestra (2021)
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  • Come on guy, I promise everything will be alright, be okay
    Your eyes are tired but keep 'em open
    'Cause you wouldn't want to miss a thing
    (Come on guy, I promise everything will be alright, be okay)
    (Your eyes are tired, but keep 'em open)
    ('Cause you wouldn't want to miss a thing)

    It's kinda funny how I paid for college when YouTube was an option
    But then I would've had to spend my best years
    Skipping ads and reading comments
    And when the hell did advertisements get so good? They're like narcotics
    So now I'm spending every penny I own
    I should've allotted to finishing college

    It's kinda funny how I keep debating
    If someone's shy or if they hate me
    I feel like everyone I know right now
    Is hooking up and getting wasted (without me)
    And maybe sex is overrated but we're too shy to ever say it (say it)
    So we pretend we're all amazing
    It's three AM I should be sleeping (sleeping)

    Would you go running if you saw the real me?
    Maybe you'd love 'em
    Yeah, maybe you'd feel me
    But I'll never ask you, no that's super scary
    Sorry to bail, it's already three o'clock
    It's too hard to tell if anything's real or not

    It's kinda funny how you vote for someone
    To vote for someone, to vote for someone (someone)
    And you might end up with someone evil but you say that he means well
    If I keep on talking politics, my friends will dip, they're over it
    If I keep on talking politics, I'm Hamilton (without the hits)

    Would you go running if you saw the real me?
    Maybe you'd love 'em
    Yeah, maybe you'd feel me
    But I'll never ask you, no that's super scary
    Sorry to bail, it's already three o'clock
    It's too hard to tell if anything's real or not

    (Come on guy, I promise everything will be alright, be okay)
    (Your eyes are tired, but keep 'em open)
    ('Cause you wouldn't want to miss a thing)

    Da, da, da, da, da
    Da, da, da, da, da
    Da, da, da, da, da
    Da, da, da, da, da

    Isn't this obvious? Am I insane?
    Let's blame our parents 'cause they taught us their ways
    Stay out of politics, stay on the fence
    Stay out of all of it to keep half your fans
    Isn't this obvious? Am I insane?
    There might be two sides to everything that you say
    It's all a bit cloudy but there's one thing I know
    That if you're fucking racist then don't come to my show

    (No, we have to do one more)

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    Da, da, da, da, da, da Writer/s: Adam Metzger, Jack Metzger, Ryan Metzger
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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