Be Careful What You Wish For

[Hook] Someone should tell someone to tell someone to tell me the truth I've been knocking around in my head With these questions that I have for you It made a convincing case and the others did too Now I don't know who to trust him, me, or you [Verse 1] My father told me when he was just about nine or ten He played a practical joke on the local postman: Pops took his cat Hid him inside the mailbox and closed the latch And beat the box with a bat until the mouse surmounted an attack Claws on tin, Louisville slugger inventing dents His feline flailed with him fighting sighting in vain attempt A cloud of dust on the country road marked the mailman's approach My father dipped into the ditch to watch the chaos unfold I don't know if you've ever trapped a cat in a bag But they'll try to run away like a tumbleweed turned into a burlap sack Any other animal will settle down resign on your fate But a cat will cut a wall and claw all while running in place The mailman was unsuspecting That a prink had been pulled His white truck slowly drove up to the box with the cat in its hold His left hand handled letters, his right grabbed the latch He turned and opened the box My father hid back Hid back [Low pitched voice] What happened after that boy, what do you think about that? You know what happened after that well, what do you think about that? You know what happened after that boy, what do you you think about that? You know what happened after that, what do you think about that? [Hook] You know he don't want no trouble He just wants to play Live life like an arrow drawn with no way Everyone he knows is always lookin' the same Be careful what you wish for it just might just come true someday You know he don't want no trouble He just wants to play Live life like an arrow drawn with no way Everyone he knows is always lookin' the same Be careful what you wish for it just might just come true someday [Whispering in the background] Be careful what you wish for [Hook] Someone should tell someone to tell someone to tell me the truth I've been knocking around in my head With these questions that I have for you It made a convincing case and the others did too Now I don't know who to trust him, me, or you [Hook] You know he don't want no trouble He just wants to play Live life like an arrow drawn with no way Everyone he knows is always lookin' both ways Be careful what you wish for it just might just come true someday You know he don't want no trouble He just wants to play Live life like an arrow drawn with no way Everyone he knows is always lookin' both ways Be careful what you wish for it just might just come true someday You know he don't want no trouble He just wants to play Wants to play (x6) [Hook] Someone should tell someone to tell someone to tell me the truth I've been knocking around in my head With these questions that I have for you It made a convincing case And the others did too Now I don't know who to trust him, me, or you... [Outro] Careful what you wish for (Fade out)