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I, I've been lonely |
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And I, I've been blind |
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And I, I've learned nothing |
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So my hands are firmly tied |
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To the sinking leadweight of failure |
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I've worked hard all my life |
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Money slips through my hands |
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My face in the mirror tells me it's no surprise |
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That I'm pushing the stone up the hill of failure |
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They tempt me with violence |
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They punish me with ideals |
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And they crush me with an image of my life that's nothing but unreal |
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Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure |
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I'll drown here trying to get up for some air |
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But each time I think I breathe |
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I'm laid on with a double share |
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Of the punishing burden of failure |
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I don't deserve to be down here |
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But I'll never leave |
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And I've learned one thing |
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You can't escape the beast |
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In the null and void pit of failure |
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When I get my hands on some money |
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I'll kiss its green skin |
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And I'll ask its dirty face |
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"Where the hell have you been?" |
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"I am the fuel that fires the engine of failure" |
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I'll be old and broken down |
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I'll forget who and where I am |
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I'll be senile or forgotten |
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But I'll remember and understand |
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You can bank your hard-earned money on failure |
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I saw my father crying |
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I saw my mother break her hand on a wall that wouldn't weep |
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But that certainly held in |
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The mechanical moans of a dying man who was a failure |
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My back hurts me when I bend because I carry a load |
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My brain hurts me like a knife-hole |
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Because I've yet to be shown |
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How to pull myself out from the sucking quicksand of failure |
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Some people live in Hell |
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Many bastards succeed |
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But I, I've learned nothing |
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I can't even elegantly bleed |
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Out the poison blood of failure |
