Don't ask me for any favors

And I won't ask how you do it

Leave me alone now

'cause after all now

Dealing with you is a nuisance.

Ever since I was young I've been wondering this

Why we walk on eggshells 'round the holy dimwitted

And if, if your tongue slips

You might have to take to task

At all of our hallowed institutions.

Don't ask me for any favors

And I won't ask how you do it

Leave me alone now

'cause after all now

Dealing with you is a nuisance.

If you could laugh at yourself what difference would it make?

You could ignore dang cartoonists

And you wouldn't turn not to pray

But if distance persists

We'll preach to choirs

Raising ire where neither side

Will raise (the sign of grace)

This feud is getting old

No one is gonna be told to go along.

Most of our questions have easy answers

Our only chance is let them be wrong.

Don't ask me for any favors

And I won't ask how you do it

Leave me alone now

'cause after all now

Dealing with you is a nuisance.