You're a periodic alcoholic
Blame it on anything you like
Start with bloodline
Then the people you love who have died
Sometimes it's a blue sky
Or a sunny night
Show me how to
Show me how to live
'Cause it ain't no way to
'Cause it ain't no way to die
Show me how to
Show me how to live
'Cause it ain't no way to
'Cause it ain't no way to die
Can't you see I am the big man?
A parasite, a wildfire, I am
I am the fire and the forest
I am the forest, the fire
I've been an atrocious
Kind of hopeless
So I gotta sit in a fold out chair
A serenity prayer
A stranger holding my hand
And he said
"It's a hard road
You gotta take it slow"
Show me how to
Show me how to live
'Cause it ain't no way to
'Cause it ain't no way to die
Show me how to
Show me how to live
'Cause it ain't no way to
'Cause it ain't no way to die
Can't you see I am the big man?
A parasite, a wildfire, I am
I am the fire and the forest
I am the forest, the fire
I'm told to find some routine;
Study, walk the dog
When she shits outside
I say "good job"
Passers-by bend down
Make baby sounds
And they play a while
And it makes me smile
Then it hits
Just out of nowhere
Yeah I wanna
Get fucked up, drink my head off
As the 'Folsom Prison Blues' roll on
'Cause I've done awful things
And the shame will win
And without the pills I ain't sleepin'
But Jess is
And she's so beautiful
So I sit
And I breath through it all
Show me how to
Show me how to live
'Cause it ain't no way to
'Cause it ain't no way to die
Show me how to
Show me how to live
'Cause it ain't no way to
'Cause it ain't no way to die
Can't you see I am the big man?
A parasite, a wildfire, I am
I am the fire and the forest
I am the forest, the fire