Been tryin' for all my life But I can't add up your subtraction Work, eat, play Then go to sleep It won't give me no satisfaction Gotta find a way out, yeah A way out of this mess So sick of tryin' to make my time last And ending up with less Know your way of doing things And it lost it's attraction Myself at 24 And I can add a hundred fractions Who'd knew I'd be the one Pulling off the perfect crime So here's my new line I'll change your mind and the metric system of time Caused trouble all over town And it's bout to start a reaction Metric time will come around It's gonna overtake your contraction I'll find a way out, yeah A way out of this stress I made my time last And it's total success Got my way of doing things And it's bound to gain your attraction Hundred hours of my supply Is gonna give us all satisfaction No doubt I'll be the one Pulling off the perfect crime So here's my new line I'll change my mind and the metric system of time