the things we do (to get by)

The things we do to survive

To barely stay alive

The night is cold

The hour’s late

But can’t return

to an empty plate

Before we rest our weary heads (Before you rest your weary heads)

We must earn their daily bread (You must earn our daily bread)

So down the maw

Of a hungry night

I clench my jaw

And still my fright

Do you think that you are bold?

To see what these dark alleys hold?

Fiendish ghouls

and ghoulish fiends

Will stain you where

You can never be cleaned

What I swore I’d never do

I do just to get through

Don’t say NO

Or please take it slow

And don’t pretend

That you won’t do it again

We are just commodities (You are just commodities)

To use and to trade as they please (To use and to trade as we please)

Once again

A new low

But my tailspin

Has much lower to go

Past the point of no return

Flaming out to crash and burn

Deeper down the rabbit hole I fall

One pill makes you small

Another pill will take away the pain

To feel nothing at all

Make me numb

So I won’t feel at all

Never feel again