I was born again a little north of Disney Land
Somewhere under Wonderland and Hollywood
But then I had to go skipping and diving and bouncing back to New York City
Straight through the heart of America where all the wild things grow
I want to be an earthquake driver
I want to be an aquarium diver
I just don't want to go home
I live alone but I am hungry for affection
I just struggle with connection 'til the water calls me home
Down under the ocean among millions of other lonely people
Drowning among the only people we are ever going to know
I want to be an earthquake driver
I want to be an aquarium diver
I just don't want to go home
I want to be like the people I see
They run all over just like me
I wanna stay but what keeps me away
Is I'm tied into the lightning line
I wanna see if the sun is shining
Long night just a waste of time
I, I don't want to see people like me
Just sleeping and waking and hoping and hating and…
You look at me like I'm some kind of carnival attraction
You say love's this abstraction, just some ghost that you chase
Well, I am sorry friend, I am a blank space
Filled up with words you remember from whenever you saw my face
Hey, I want to be an earthquake driver
I don't want to be an aquarium diver
I just don't want to go home
I want to be like the people I see
Hey man, they run all over just like me
I wanna stay for what keeps me away
Is I'm plugged into the lightning line and
I want to be where the sun is shining
All night chasing time
I don't wanna be like people like me
Just creeping and waking and hoping and hating and…
So what is the price of all of this fame and self-absorption?
We turn ourselves into orphans and then spend out nights alone
Living in fear of some imaginary consequence
Terror, incognito, ob-la-di ob-la-da
I want to be an earthquake driver
I don't want to be an aquarium diver
I just don't want to go home
Truth is, I don't want to be no earthquake driver
And I don't want to be an aquarium diver
But hey, I just don't want to go home
Oh man, I just don't want to go home
No, I do not wanna go home