Where Zero Meets Fifteen Lyrics

(Reese/Scott)
My car broke down in Arizona, have to ride the bus again,
At ten-o-clock on Tuesday night, with thirteen cents and a broken pen.
I put my backpack on a bench, tell two people I don't smoke,
See a cop across the street, he thinks that I am selling dope.
I could have walked another block, to get away from the scene.
Why does it always come to this where the zero meets the fifteen?
And so I gave my thirteen cents to the man who peed his pants.
He passes out and falls on me, I watch my change fall from his hands.
I see the lady next to me, holds her baby black and blue.
The junkie gutter-punks keep asking where I got my new tattoo.
What does it matter anyway, thirteen cents or all I own?
How can I ever save the world, on cup-o-soup and student loans?
And I want to try to save the world, but it never goes my way.
God, I don't know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway.
Now the man with no shoes on, says I don't know how to play.
He says I fumble all the time. He thinks that I am John Elway.
I put my face down in my hands, water wells inside my eyes.
What do I have to give them? Does it maker if I try?
I can't stand to see you suffer, I try to intellectualize,
A formula to end your pain, it doesn't work, God knows I've tried.
And I want to try to save the world, but it never goes my way.
God, I don't know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway.
Sometimes my cup is overfilled.
Sometimes I'm too afraid that I'm going to spill.
I want to try to save the world, but it never goes my way.
God, I don't know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway.