Lyrics
You Are So Petty
So the cashier has short changed you a nickel
While you argue you are holding up all the other people
Then you drive across town to save a dime on a bottle of pop
But it cost you fifty cents in gas, you dumb butt
So you just lost forty cents without even giving it a thought
You strain at a gnat and you swallow a camel
You make a big deal out of the inconsequential
You make something out of nothing
And turn nothing into something
What others see as minor, you make it a major deal
You are so petty, you are so petty
So many trivial things get under your skin
Insignificant details always grab your attention
Nobody else ever gives a crap, but for you it becomes a mental trap
Nobody else ever bats an eye
But with you it always starts a fight
While nobody else takes note, everything gets your goat
You are trivial, peripheral, extraneous, invidious
Near sighted, narrow minded, trifling, pettifoggling
Fiddling, nugatory, no more popular than a suppository
And here's the reason why