hey asshole watsky feat kate nash

Kate Nash

Chorus:
Hey, asshole
See the sun is shining
But you are not smiling
And I don t know why
And I don t know why
And I don t know why

I m an asshole
Cause the sun is shining
But I am not smiling
And I don t know why
And I don t know why
And I don t know why

I know I m often told
That there s a pot of gold
But I don t see a fucking rainbow and my coffee s cold
I know I should be grateful
I know I m good and able
But I don t have the strength to get up from the kitchen table
This kind of shot comes once
Another opportunity of a lifetime just slipped away
And that s the fifth this month
but when you take a punch
Don t you ever forget
Why you get up and you put one foot in front of the next

Got the power of my will
I don t needa to win a mil
But I m looking at window sill
Gotta take a bitter pill
Gonna pay for what I did to my head
and my heart ll foot the bill
Got a foot in my mouth and because
I m kicking myself I developed
A habit of knocking out my front tooth
Looking uncouth
want to hear the truth
Give it to me straight
151 proof
Telling myself it ll happen when I m happy
But I m climbing up a ladder that has got no end
Hung up on a rung I ll never make it to the top
I m looking at the bottom and I must descend
All I want to do is buck this trend
Everybody need a buck to spend
And I ll be working on myself, til I work on someone else
Til I get there Ima just pretend

I know I m often told
That there s a pot of gold
But I don t see a fucking rainbow and my coffee s cold
I know I should be grateful
I know I m good and able
But I don t have the strength to get up from the kitchen table
This kind of shot comes once
Another opportunity of a lifetime just slipped away
And that s the fifth this month
but when you take a punch
Don t you ever forget
Why you get up and you put one foot in front of the next

Chorus:
Hey, asshole
See the sun is shining
But you are not smiling
And I don t know why
And I don t know why
And I don t know why

I m an asshole
Cause the sun is shining
But I am not smiling
And I don t know why
And I don t know why
And I don t know why

When I m in a crisis
In a moment of silence
I look under my eyelids
And I m checking my mileage
I been using a pool of water as a mirror but not for style it s
So I can reach in and pimpslap
my reflection for acting childish
Spent a half an hour sitting at the bottom of my shower
letting the water run over my body and
(dammit I wanted to get up)
But I didn t have the power
I don t have the answer anyway yay (yay yay yay)
Don t want to panic but I got to come clean
because the plan of the planet is just mean
Knew if was tough, but dammit it s obscene
I been huffing and puffing up to the top of the summit
And I ma rough it if I have enough steam
I ll keep on coming and coming until
I m coming with the stamina of a salmon
Who s heading upstream nah nah nah nah nah

Chorus (x2):

Hey, asshole
See the sun is shining
But you are not smiling
And I don t know why
And I don t know why
And I don t know why

I m an asshole
Cause the sun is shining
But I am not smiling
And I don t know why
And I don t know why
And I don t know why