so i sing a song to reel em in it s a song i ve sung before and a song i m gonna sing again i mean every word i don t mean a single one of them oh lord make me pure but not yet tell a joke tell it twice if no one else is laughing then why am i i split my sides both times and laugh until i cry oh lord please make me pure but not yet i don t have to try i just dial it in i ve never found a job that for me was worth bothering i got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones beneath this skin oh lord make me pure but not yet smoking kills sex sells i ve got one hand in my pocket but the other one looks cool as hell i know i m gonna die so my revenge is living well oh lord make me pure but not yet  i stopped praying so i hope this song will do i wrote it all for you i m not perfect but you don t mind that do you i know you re there to pull me through aren t you so i look for love i like the search and i ll be standing for election all across the known universe every president gets the country she deserves oh lord make me pure but not yet and i ve been seeing somebody s wife she said she d leave him for me and i said that wasn t wise you can t lie to a liar because of all the lies oh lord please make me pure not yet