Let us buy a little house We can fix up Move it all in your girlfriend's truck We'll need some plants in our rooms Lots of cartoons A dirty carpet for a witches broom We'll need a market down the street Roller skates for our feet A local laundromat where we'll watch TV And a pawn shop not far You can lend your guitars And buy 'em back when there's more bread in the jar And that's all That we'll need to get by We'll bring our neighbors Some coffee, peppers and cherry lime We'll have a dog with one eye A cat that climbs across Our chipped fence, a palm outside (a palm outside) You'll smoke on your pipe While I sip on my beer We'll pack our worries up away for the year And if it all works as planned Maybe someday we can Live off on some distant beach in a van We'll have a garden that rises Up in the spring And color it in in some paint-stained jeans And that's all That we'll need to get by We'll bring our neighbors Some demo tapes of you and I ♪ And that's all (and that's all) That we'll need to get by (we'll need to get by) And that's all (and that's all) That we'll need to get by (we'll need to get by) We'll have our neighbors come by And join us for a fish fry