I'll fake it through the day with some help From Johnny Walker Red And the cold pain behind my eyes That shoots back through my head With two tickets
You're strong, you're stubborn now In an endless symbolic war Brave or bored, either/or Sometimes I ricochet from the past And at times, a future I've
, what a plan, suicide It's just not that much different from my own affair Oh, wincing, cussing and crying How about if you tell me something new Tell
He waved hello silent like a mime We met, there's no changing my mind I won't walk the stairs with you tonight Going nowhere The clock moved a quarter
Well, you shouldn't talk to your yourself Well, I pictured somebody else Someone that looks like What I look like Would you say that the one of your
Go on parade and fade Hit the scene in slow Spending all your time with some girl You'll never get to know Wound up tight Dressed all in white Some torment
Think I'm unkind But people aren't the way you think they are They can't remember all the time What it was you wanted They paint you out in straight
Coma kid, tell me how you come to Follow you around where ever you go Said, ?I don't go where I'm supposed go And I don't go really anywhere, you know
Wiped out in the city slick Another sick rock 'n' roller acting like a dick needing cash Burning through the trash that piles up in this place And fills
The ghost of your smile is always looking For new bodies to haunt And it's been here and disappeared It's hanging around aloofly for a while Gradually
Looking at all the rows All these records look like big zeros I got your picture on the back of a 45 A placeholder 'til you take up mine A placeholder
Here come your pride and joy The comic little drunk you call your boy Making everybody smile Who takes your pretty plan And then becomes a disappearing
Here come the sidewalk boss again Telling me how I can't cave in That I'm a study in black Need a pat on the back I look up and smile, a picture of dissatisfaction
I'm a first timer Wishing I was someone else When I see you by yourself In a cold riddle Where you find yourself not blocked By the doors you locked
lower case Trying to get your cops to talk right They can't put the paper in your face And you're just trying to walk by So now I got a new game, baby
I'd say you make a perfect Angel in the snow All crushed out on the way you are Better stop before it goes too far Don't you know that I love you? Sometimes
In Storyville, I fucked a cop Amped up on prescription pills That brought my heart to a stop And I wanna tell you There's a riot coming like a drug in
miniature man Who can't feel it at all See you later See you later If I see you at all See you later Walked through thick mud Looking for new blood
