Testing 1, 2, 3 - Live Vancouver, B.C. 3-30-04

Maybe it would be fun
 To get a new opinion
 Get a little work done
 And forget
 Maybe it would be cool
 If I rocked it old school
 Try to break a gold rule
 And a sweat
 Better than the first time
 Better than the worst time
 If I could just reverse time
 I'd be set
 Testing 1, 2, 3
 Can anybody hear me?
 If I shed the irony
 Would anybody cheer me?
 If I acted less like me
 Would I be in the clear?
 She got a new apartment
 It's out on the escarpment
 And in her glove compartment
 Are my songs
 She hasn't even heard them
 Since she found out what the words meant
 She decided she preferred them
 All wrong
 Kind of like the last time
 With a bunch of really fast rhymes
 If we're living in the past, I'm
 Soon gone
 Testing 1, 2, 3
 Can anybody hear me?
 If I shed the irony
 Would anybody cheer me?
 If I acted less like me
 Would I be in the clear?
 We recognize the present
 Is half as pleasant
 As our nostalgia for
 The past'll be presented
 Recast and reinvented
 Until it's how we meant it
 Testing 1, 2, 3
 Can anybody hear me?
 If I shed the irony
 Would anybody cheer me?
 If I acted less like me
 Would I be in the clear?
 He's everything that you need
 You wiped out on your ten speed
 And either he will succeed
 Or just suck
 Testing 1, 2, 3
 Can anybody hear me?
 If I shed the irony
 Would anybody cheer me?
 If I acted less like me
 Would I be in the clear?
 Begin the...
 Testing 1, 2, 3
 Can anybody hear me?
 If I shed the irony
 Would anybody cheer me?
 If I acted less like me
 Would I be in the clear?
 Would I be in the clear, G?
 Testing 1, 2, 3
 Testing 1, 2, 3