Eric Michael Jones

Lyrics to Personality Skips a Generation

© Eric Michael Jones [ASCAP]

I saw a square cloud

It was a perfect square

I never mentioned it out loud

Maybe I wasn’t even really there

Everybody is so annoyed

Walking around in their peculiar days

Either schizophrenic or paranoid

Living beneath that purple haze

Where the waves of fear are crashing over you

It’s a panic in your imagination

Next thing you know it’s a phobia

Personality skips a generation

You’ve been on your own for all these years

Living inside your little room

Filling up your closets with all your fears

Now you’ve got no place to put your broom

You walk down the street and people look at you

They might think you’re pretty strange

Let ‘em walk on by they haven’t got a clue

Nasty habits are so hard to change

In the spiral decline of a phobia

Personality skips a generation

Waves of fear crashing over you

It’s a panic in your imagination

I’m not afraid of cats

I’m not afraid of the number thirteen

I am afraid of rats, but it’s not a phobia

I only care if my hands aren’t always clean

Stare into the sun

I double dare you

Believe it or not living is really fun

Even if those little things scare you

Toss a stone and watch the ripple

Circular logic is to blame

Fear just makes you a cripple

I bet your Grandma was just the same

In the spiral decline of a phobia

Personality skips a generation

Waves of fear crashing over you

It’s a panic in your imagination

I saw a square cloud

It was a perfect square

In the spiral decline of a phobia

Personality skips a generation

Waves of fear crashing over you

It’s a panic in your imagination

In the spiral decline of a phobia

Personality skips a generation