Did I Step on Your Trumpet - Danielson

Did I step on your trumpet

Or did I lump

Lump them in with you?

(Did he step on your trumpet

Or did he lump?)

I put your name on the ballot

'Cause you should run

Though you don’t want to

(He put your name on the ballot

Thought you should run)

I been called the wet blanket

By cranks who I outrank

With no thanks

Who do not have a clue

Yes, I know how to be quiet

Just one more thing

I made you something

(He thinks he knows how to be quiet

Made you something)

I wrote for you a lovely sonnet

'Bout two great friends

Yours truly and you

We’ll grant just one social skill

Share a gesture of good will

How

I try

To relate

With

My shipmates

Then I just start blurting out the first thing my mind

How’m I looking in your frilly bonnet

With a diamond on it?

I guess I better go

(How's he looking in your frilly bonnet

With a diamond on it?)

I’m a people magnet

When I wear your jacket

Good luck getting this

Pleasing people

Is so predictable

We love you now

Then stab you how many

Times I obsess

And am making a mess

Failing to impress you

In all that I can’t do

Would you take care of my pet parrot

And feed him, please?

He speaks less than me

(Would you take care of his pet parrot

And kill him, please?)

You speak so much about my casket

My body basket

Did I do something wrong?

(You speak so much about his casket

His body basket)

We’ll grant one more social clue

The landfill shall be home to you

All my ships

Sailing relations

Have finally found

Who I am made out to be

Bein' free

Of

Pleasing people

Is so predictable

We love you now

Then stab you how many

Times I obsess

And am making a mess

Failing to impress you

In all that I can’t

Be just who you’re made to be

Papa is so mighty please with thee