More Than Jake

Less Than Jake* - Their song's used to make me shake and feel physically sick. Then I met Jake on a bus. **

I had dreamed about that day. I typed "dreamed", I ment had nightmare's. His name combined with my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder had taken the ska music I loved and turned it into crap. He had taken our Love and flushed it down the shitter.

LESS THAN JAKE. Green logo messing with my colour scheme? Fuck it.

I dreamed (and I mean dreamed this time - pun totally intended), of hurting him. I'd never break any legal laws. Not like him. I'd break moral laws though. Anything to ease the pain.

Hunting him down years later seemed like a great plan. Waiting for him to find a wife. Then I would appear and seduce her. Just because I could. No premeditated physical harm. Purley an alluring attack on his heart. I was more than Jake, I just never knew it then.

I would have broke the rules. I did.  Not the ones enforced by the police, but the unwritten laws that are shared between a man and a woman. Completly consensual fucking.

Times have changed, I'd never go out of my way to hurt him now. He is not worth it. Turn the other cheek and all that. Forgive and forget.

If his girl want's her cheeks turning along my travels so be it. Besides it wasn't just his acts that where the enemy. His partner in crime was my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. My mind.

I can forgive him, but I can also acquit myself. Life is to short.

I can live with my decisions. from time to time I wonder if he can.

I can sing (well I can't sing, but I do anyway). I sing loud and proud. FUCK OCD and FUCK JAKE they are both OVERRATED.

"Maybe I'm jaded and bored
Always looking for more
Wait around for the next big fix
I know I'm a wreck, I'm a mess
But I couldn't care less
Don't know what it would take to change me

Everybody's so afraid to be different
Please excuse me now if I don't get it

I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
Designer drugs and dead end jobs
And classic rock is so outdated
I'm so sick of therapy
And all the things it's done to me
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated

Maybe the problem is me
But I won't make believe
And I can't take this mediocrity
What if this is a test?
And I deserve what I get?
Will I wake up with all the answers?

Everybody's too afraid to be different
Please excuse me now if I don't listen

I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
Designer drugs and dead end jobs
And classic rock is so outdated
I'm so sick of therapy
And all the things it's done to me
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated

(Woah, woah).
When everything is overrated.

Can't stand the normal
Can't stand the ordinary
Find me anything that's extraordinary
Show me something
Show me anything
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?

I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
All my friends and family
They make my life so complicated
I'm so sick of apathy and TV show reality
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated.

Woah, woah.
When everything is overrated."

- Less than Jake



* These ramblings are not aimed at the band Less Than Jake. I Love those guys.
** This blog post is a form of artistic expression, influenced by rock and rap.