Barenaked Ladies – Testing 1,2,3 lyrics

Maybe it would be fun
to get a new opinion,
get a little work done
and forget.

Maybe it would be cool
if I rocked it old school,
tried to break a gold rule
and a sweat.

Better than the first time,
better than the worst time,
if I could just reverse time
I'd be set.

Testing 1, 2, 3
Can anybody hear me?
If I shed the irony
would everybody cheer me?
If I acted less like me
would I be in the clear?

She got a new apartment.
It's out on the escarpment.
And in her glove compartment
are my songs.

She hasn't even heard them
since she found out what the words meant,
she decided she preferred them
all wrong.

Kind of like the last time
with a bunch of really fast rhymes.
If we're living in the past
I'm soon gone.

Testing 1, 2, 3
Can anybody hear me?
If I shed the irony
would everybody cheer me?
If I acted less like me
would I be in the clear?

We recognize the present
is half as pleasant
as our nostalgia for
the past as re-presented,
re-cast and re-invented,
until it's how we meant it.

Testing 1, 2, 3
Can anybody hear me?
If I shed the irony
would everybody cheer me?
If I acted less like me
would I be in the clear?

He's everything that you need.
You wiped out on your ten-speed
and either he will succeed
or just suck.

Testing 1, 2, 3
Can anybody hear me?
If I shed the irony
would everybody cheer me?
If I acted less like me
would I be in the clear?

Begin then...

Testing 1, 2, 3
Can anybody hear me?
If I shed the irony
would everybody cheer me?
If I acted less like me
would I be in the clear, G?

Testing 1, 2, 3
Testing 1, 2, 3