Your day job isn't that important to me
I approach it with a certain degree of animosity
Yelling at me like you've got something better to do
Well you've got nothing better to do
And the evening's yours to lose

You're on TV now
I thought you already sold out
It's hard to keep the details straight from up in this cloud
I saw that you wrote a book about drugs
And how smoking them too much just kills your buzz

I never ever wanted you to call in sick
But every time you did this little pang in my leg
Started jittering jittering until it
Eventually broke loose and stopped all the traffic across the frozen pond
I never ever wanted you to call in late
So whenever you did I made a mark on the wall
Until eventually the ink got so much heavier
That it crushed the guy next to me
Oh well I didn't like him at all

I've got a resonant frequency
That modulates well with a Texas Theory
The redesigned districts in major metropolitan areas
Well maybe fourth place is scarier
Than not even placing at all

Ecstasy's fun but it mashes your brain
I don't know from experience, it's the common refrain
That reminds us when we're young where our drug dollars go
Well if it feels so
important then why do I still have this headache

You saw the effects of the air on an untested specimen
You saw the reasons why we never derivate from the protocol slash regimen
You saw all the reasons why we don't try
I guess we'll skip the upbeat freeze-frame for once

And season four got the lowest score
Because everyone wants to change the world
If I called Derek or any of the Dominos
Will they think I'm older than dirt
When I haven't got a chance to see how warm the ground is

I never ever wanted you to call in sick
But every time you did this little pang in my leg
Started jittering jittering until it
Eventually broke loose and stopped all the traffic across the frozen pond
I never ever wanted you to call in late
So whenever you did I made a mark on the wall
Until eventually the ink got so much heavier
That it crushed the guy next to me
Oh well I didn't like him at all

When you call in sick you call me a lot of things
There's a reason that I keep smoking
I was the one who slashed the tires on your car
So I guess you can keep on calling
Or maybe you should just stop calling

The Minnesota North Stars were founded as an expansion team in 1967, playing their games at the newly-constructed Metropolitan Sports Center (the "Met Center") in Bloomington, adjacent to Metropolitan Stadium. By the early nineties, declining attendance and the inability to secure a new downtown, revenue-generating stadium led team owner Norm Green to move the team to Dallas's Reunion Arena. After moving to Dallas, the team was sold to Tom Hicks and a new arena, America Airlines Center, was finished.

The Oakland Seals were also a 1967 expansion team. They had many attendance and financial difficulties throughout their history. They went through various name and ownership changes to try to stay afloat. The owner of the Oakland Athletics (of baseball) had at one point bought the team and tried to rejuvenate it with mass advertising campaigns and by changing the team uniform colors to match that of the baseball team. All of these efforts failed in the Bay area and the team was moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and renamed the Cleveland Barons. After two unsuccessful seasons in Cleveland, the Barons merged with the Minnesota North Stars for the 1978-79 NHL season.

The Dallas Stars have had much greater success at the box office and on the ice than any of their predecessors. They have won two Presidents' Trophies as the team with the best overall NHL record and have won the Stanley Cup once.

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