Saturday, April 19, 2025 : TES > eTexts > Throw It All Away

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Throw It All Away

Take your cautionary tales
Take your incremental gain
And all the sychophantic games
And throw ’em all away

Burn your TV in your yard [5]
Gather ’round it with your friends
And warm your hands upon the fire
And start again

Take the story you’ve been sold
The lies that justify the pain [10]
The guilt that weighs upon your soul
And throw ’em all away

Tear up that calandar you bought
And throw the pieces to the sky
Confetti falling down like rain [15]
Like a parade to usher in your life

Take the dreams that should have died
The ones that kept you lying awake
When you should been alright
And throw ’em all away [20]

With the time I waste on the life I never had
I could’ve turned myself into a better man

There is nothing you can buy
There is nothing you can say
To fill the hole inside your heart [25]
So throw it all away
Won’t fill the hole inside your heart

Help me to empty out this house
The wool I gathered all these days
And thought I couldn’t do without [30]
And throw ’em all away