You can’t believe I can’t believe you’re gone You lost me to the music, I lost you when you moved along Different people want different things out of their lives And you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be drunk when you see me next time All I really want is everything I want and for this suffering to stop But I can’t stuff you in my pocket and take you places you won’t go But I need the things I need, whatever they might be I’ve got no handle on my life I’m like a dead man running lost and I can’t slow down I wake up soaking wet from being out in the rain All this drinking and forgetting going poorly together again ‘Cause the morning light reminds me of your eyes All I got’s this headache for my heartache and a sick and empty feeling inside All I really want is everything I want and for this suffering to stop But I can’t stuff you in my pocket and take you places you won’t go But I need the things I need, whatever they might be I’ve got no handle on my life I’m like a dead man running scared and I can’t slow down Please…I’m a dead man running lost Please…I can’t turn it off All I really want is everything I want and for this suffering to stop But I can’t stuff you in my pocket and take you places you won’t go But I need the things I need, whatever they might be I’ve got no handle on my life I’m just a dead man running ’round and I can’t slow down

Your comfort leaves me cold It’s much too quiet I see what I’ve been shown, but looking with my own eyes I think, but I don’t know This is uncertain There’s nowhere left to go but everywhere at once It’s bright when it shines, a life you live dancing like a star But right when it’s mine, I realize just how false your reasons are My eyes along the sky On the horizon A sea of blue and white, but bolder than the dirt Some people give their lives to chase illusions To taste the sweetest lies and not the bitter truth Paint a picture with your hands Exhibit it across the land Dig your toes into the sand But it won’t hold you up Sing a song in falsest voice Sing it like you had no choice Sing and let your hands rejoice But I won’t hold mine up I won’t hold you up

You work all day for your hard-earned pay And you never give a further thought Pay income tax with the sweat of your backs For the freedom that your labor bought But what if one day you heard the doctor say the “C” word Had spread through your daughter’s body And the treatment plan costs a five-year span Of the food you would feed your family? And the men at the top say it’s never going to stop Here’s advice to the poor and sickly If you can’t pay the bills for the cuttin’ and the pills Then the least you can do is die quickly So you wait on the phone with an HMO It’s a business like any other Feed their bottom line, and they’re doin’ just fine By the healthy that they cover But when you get ill, the way folks will They don’t return the feeling ‘Cause a business makes money, so they’re tellin’ you, honey These doctors ain’t for healing And the men with the clout all would love to help you out But they make more green playin’ tricksy If you can’t pay the bills for the cuttin’ and the pills Then the least you can do is die quickly A celebrated musician’s preexisting condition Has him laid up in the house all day He’s not feeling well, so his records won’t sell And his record company won’t pay With no end in sight, he ended his life For pain is a tireless worker Accidental Misadventure or a desperate bender? But me, I’d call it murder All those who vote, don’t cut your own throat Pick a man with a plan to fix the Land of the free for likes of you and me So we will not die quickly

Can’t you hear the sounds above? The gods are shaking the bones A bad moon is covered in dishonest storms You learn as you grow old Some people delight in the slaughter of your purity of heart It makes no sense to me And why on earth do they prize themselves so highly? Look to the sky and see the way the world is Makes you want to cry So dress for the weather Keep your head and your body together Know these things don’t last forever, whatever the greatest hopes of fools Who see the devil clouds cover the land They feel the pressure, but don’t understand Just be sure you dress for the weather ‘Cause nothing lasts forever There was such a flood in here It rained for forty days All the lies and the burdens you thought I should bear The song remains the same Some people can’t tell me their reasons without tripping over their feet It makes no sense to me And why on earth do they repeat themselves so loudly? Look to the sky and see what is comin’ down Makes you want to cry

At one, shut me out Couldn’t stand another meltdown My eyes upon the stars as you disintegrate alone It’s trick or treat, but you won’t want what you receive You always end up on your knees a little wiser I know where I want to be, but I can’t get there Two hearts Too far too go I can point my telescope to the farthest reaches of my galaxies But it can’t show me where I’m hurting you Show me where I’ve hurt you At two, try again Look across the voice and try to touch A cross-eyed fool who cannot chart the stars of his own life I’d tell you why if I knew the inner workings of my mind So do not seek and do not find, and you’ll be better off Procyon to Tao Ceti to Eta Cassiopiae I gaze and gaze and gaze and fade away Sirius to Barnard’s Star, Alpha Centauri to Sun I gaze and gaze and gaze until I cannot see the point When all is said and done, don’t mistake me When all is said and done, don’t get me wrong I had nothing but the best intentions