So all of us are bound together Tied together, stuck forever Sleeping in our beds just short enough Our feet exposed, we're cold enough To bundle up and let the cold seep in And we're coughing and we're shivering All praying for deliverance Caught up in what we're swimming in Upstream to something easy Choking on the shit we're breathing in It's all collapsing, think on it, where you went wrong I'm saving my saliva, cookie crumbs, my lovely lies For bettеr times, and better triеs Someday I'll get it right Someday I'll get it For now, I'll ante up, empty my cup Quit looking up to anyone Or any stuck and tired phantom That's enough, oh that's enough That's enough to show me my position Exorcism, lost conviction Oh, I was a lover of the chase Before that bit of grace was spent On coffee, cigarettes and drugs That moticam of careless love I spent it all on something sinking in the sewers But for now I'll watch my clothing fade The grand parade, the masquerade The mothball in the cupboard I've been saving for a rainy day The mothball in the cupboard I've been saving for a rainy day The mothball in the cupboard I was standing on the street The ice and snow under my feet Beneath the rows of planted trees Who's pretty leaves had fled the scene A month before And all them people in their doorways Made their way down to the grocery stores And up the road Into the office buildings where they worked And I joined in along In silent song beside them Cursing our vocation, dreaming up vacations From them old bus stations I'm working for the mass production And the gumption of that introduction From that suit or uniform That shapes you into any form they need To make somebody work from dawn to dusk They'll care enough about your welfare When you cut yourself, break your limbs Or grab your chest And fall onto the floor The paperwork is piling up and your heart attack Is documented and filed along with the rest of them So now I'm down by the train tracks Down by the smoke stacks Sad saps, and the power plants That old Cherokee factory And the Wyatt Towing Company I give one hundred dollars To the man behind the desk Who just would not accept a check Or even listen to my pitiful laments God knows he's heard it all before But I'm no different So I'll make a partial payment And move on down the frozen pavement And I do not feel ashamed That I am sick of saying c'est la vie I do not feel that I am any wiser For the things I've seen But maybe wisdom comes with age And maybe those with fortunes fade While we who live to die Are in possession of some kinder fate
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