Explanations (Live|Remastered)

Oh, when I was, I was, oh, if you was, like-

Gimme just a, a second

What I was tryna say was, what happened was...

When I was, can I get a word in edgewise?

When I do what I do

Why must I keep giving you an explanation?

I am sure enough at a loss

When I have to deal with cross examinations

I thought it was surely well beyond

Any harm it may confirm investigation

But this is lucid and defensive

When I'm bumping up against your imagination

So we sat down and we talked it under

'Til there wasn't nothing left of it

And it always makes me wonder

If I'm sitting here and talking to myself

When I say what I say

Why do you get in my way with intimidation?

I am only wasting time

Knowing you don't want to find no information

It's like stepping under water

And getting nowhere fast

I wonder if it's really worth the bother

And sometimes I feel like I may not last

Feeling like a treasure hunter looking for an explanation

Now what really happened was somethin' that you might believe

Looking for an argument and not an explanation

But you can't get one with me

Take off

Feeling like a treasure hunter looking for an explanation

Now what really happened was somethin' that you might believe

Looking for an argument and not an explanation

But you can't get one with me

Do what I do

Why must I keep giving you an explanation?

Girl it surely ain't no change

When it's always the same investigation

It's like stepping under water

And getting nowhere fast

I wonder if it's really worth the bother

And sometimes I feel like I may not last

Can you dig it?

When I say what I say

Why do you get in the way with intimidation?

Girl it surely ain't no change

I know it's always the same confrontations

Yeah I'm just a couple minutes late

And you look like the jury great Perry Mason