Bellyfat Blues

I don't like it, don't like it hanging out in front
I gotta say it's givin' me the shits
Well pardon me for being so blunt
It wasn't there a while ago, I don't know from where it came
But I don't like it so very bad I can hardly say its name

And I don't want it don't want it and it's clear I'm not alone
I see some folks who've had it since before they were even grown
And they seem to get on with their lives and I guess they seem ok
But I don't like and don't want it - and that's all I've got to say

I never look down 'cuz it's
Hard to miss
I can't believe
That it's come to this
It came on slow
So I didn't know
It was happening to me
Until one day in a mirror I saw what everybody else could see

I've been alive a lot more years than I've got years left to live
I've been doing pretty good with learning to forgive
Myself for things I did or didn't do and places I've never been
But I'm finding it hard to forget that I was once young, fit and thin

For me it's front and centre, but for some its back and low
Others carry it anywhere, everywhere they go
But they tell me that this belly fat is no good for my heart
And since I want to live a few more years I suppose I'd better start
Some sort of exercise and diet - well it seems a cruel plot
But as card carrying human being I suppose that that's my lot

I never look down
Cuz it's hard to miss
I can't believe
That it's come to this
It came on slow
So I didn't know
That I was not immune
Maybe now that's just who I am and hence this tragic tune