Where Zero Meets Fifteen Lyrics - Singles - Five Iron Frenzy

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 the bench, tell two people I dont smoke, 

see the 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 zero meets 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 hand. 

I see the lady next to me, holds her baby black blue. 

The junkie gutter-punks keeps 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? 

I want to try and save the world, but it never goes that way. 

God I dont know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway. 

Now the man with no shoes on, says I dont 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 matter if I try? 

I cant stand to see you suffer, I try to intellectualize, 

a formula to end you pain, it doesnt work, 

God knows Ive tried. Sometimes my cup is overfilled. 

Sometimes Im too afraid that Im going to spill.