Testing 1, 2, 3 - Barenaked Ladies

Maybe it would be fun

To get a new opinion

Get a little work done

And forget

Maybe it would be cool

If I rocked it old school

Try to break a gold rule

And a sweat

Better than the first time

Better than the worst time

If I could just reverse time

I’d be set

Testing 1, 2, 3

Can anybody hear me?

If I shed the irony

Would anybody cheer me?

If I acted less like me

Would I be in the clear?

She got a new apartment

It’s out on the escarpment

And in her glove compartment

Are my songs

She hasn’t even heard them

Since she found out what the words meant

She decided she preferred them

All wrong

Kind of like the last time

With a bunch of really fast rhymes

If we’re living in the past I’m

Soon gone

Testing 1, 2, 3

Can anybody hear me?

If I shed the irony

Would anybody cheer me?

If I acted less like me

Would I be in the clear?

We recognize the present

Is half as pleasant

As our nostalgia for

The past’ll be presented

Recast and reinvented

Until it’s how we meant it

Testing 1, 2, 3

Can anybody hear me?

If I shed the irony

Would anybody cheer me?

If I acted less like me

Would I be in the clear?

He’s everything that you need

You wiped out on your ten speed

And either he will succeed

Or just suck

Testing 1, 2, 3

Can anybody hear me?

If I shed the irony

Would anybody cheer me?

If I acted less like me

Would I be in the clear?

Begin the testing 1, 2, 3

Can anybody hear me?

If I shed the irony

Would anybody cheer me?

If I acted less like me

Would I be in the clear, G?

Testing 1, 2, 3

Testing 1, 2, 3