I will never be what I thought I'd be Life's a salmon run, I'm a river wild All my greatest fears they don't measure up I will never be what I thought I'd be Once I was a child, not as scared as now Now sometimes my nerves make up yes or no Rooms with norms for walls, fucked up standards, and I will never be what I thought I'd be Mother told me thrice "don't you run away" Aight I'll give it time, I'm a big boy now But the assembly lines how they scream for me I will never be what I thought I'd be I'd be the dirty, smelly hobo busking streets I'd be 'Le blanc', drunk with brothers far away I'd be the hopeless case who's always on the run Oh, if I could