i brought a guitar i brought a handful of credit cards i filled a van and a trailer up to the top with shit that i ll probably never use i took 95 and then i transferred to the i 85 took it to 441 south to north ave to ruth then i drove through my backyard yeah whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i could never understand why people can t begin again it wouldn t stop raining we didn t have our key till we met helen and jj at about 1 am they said from la to london there is no other place i would rather live then here we had to unpack things just to get to the mattress and box spring flopped it down in the center of our shiny new home a blue house with no cable and with no telephone just a bottle of champagne and we popped the cork yeah whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i could never understand how people hate the minutemen how people can t appreciate it takes time to make something great yeah i know i m repeating myself here yeah i know i m repeating myself again shake the shakes away shake the shakes away if you re going uphill at a very rapid speed soon there s nowhere to go but down so take the time to rise back up and up and up and up and up yeah whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i could never understand why people can t begin again why people can t appreciate it s okay to do something great yeah i know i m repeating myself again and again and again