What Do I Know?

[Verse 1]
Right foot red and left hand blue
I'm tangled up when you get through
Don't know what the hell to do
'Cause you tie me up and you tie me down
There's no way out of this dark town
And you're all painted like a clown
With a permanent frown

[Pre-Chorus]
And there's this cold breath on my collar
There's the dime and there's the dollar
But I'll make the call, I'll take the fall, climb the castle wall
I'm my mother's only daughter

[Chorus]
And what do I know?
Tell me, tell me
What do I know?
I'm listening now

[Verse 2]
You ask me "What's the real return?"
As parades pass by and bridges burn
And I say, "Nothing ventured, nothing's earned"
It's what I learned
'Cause every complicated step
She'd be watching from stage left
And when I'd fall she'd talk me through the rest

[Chorus]
'Cause what did I know?
Tell me, tell me
What did I know?
I'm listening now

[Verse 3]
The party's never over here
There's music blasting in our ears
And nothing's ever really clear
But the ones we hold dear
And so it goes until the end
We will break and break if we don't bend
And there's one more clown that someone sends
And it starts again

[Chorus]
'Cause what do I know?
Tell me, tell me
What do I know?
I'm listening now
What do I know?
Tell me, tell me
What do I know?
'Cause I'm listening now