I sat strange in a new city, much too old to make new friends
And I paid a patient ear and then double for some hands
'Cause I am my favorite habits, yeah and I could use a win
But the hole is always hungry, so I take it on the chin
And the morning after, wrapped up in a sheet
Well my rant was fueled by a high dwindling
So bright hours earlier, dulled by morning sun
Left with nothing sharper than the evidence of fun
I said, I can take you away from here
And save you from those lonely years
As she stood inside my doorway, thin as alcoholics' blood
And her head it tilted slightly to recall the speech she'd done
Oh so many times before
She said, "I like it here, I don't need saving
I am happy, I'm no damsel, or a proxy"
And it's probably for the best, 'cause I'd rather be sleeping
When I have to pay the piper and it's feeding time again
When the fever breaks
When the buzz is gone (I'll try again)
Take a breath before
Your comfort will bring you down (I'll fail again)
Gotta let it go
Next time will be yours (but next time I'll fail better)
You're quite right
♪
Aces and eights
'Bout damn time I trade 'em in
Before the rake
For a script pad and a pen
And then when my darkness lifted, it was oh so bittersweet
Like the end of a long marriage, where I missed its company
But my options all dissolved slowly by acidic years
What the hell do it do now, why would I want to see this clear?
Now I'm alternating between celebrating and recuperating
Retribution for the notion that I'm someone's special something
God and I rarely see eye to eye, I made my wager, that's good style
But oh, that hole comes back, yeah it comes back
Almost every single night
There's no way to fill it up
But Lord knows I've tried, I'll try again
When the fever breaks
When the buzz is gone (I'll try again)
Take a breath before
Your comfort will bring you down (I'll fail again)
Gotta let it go
Next time will be yours (but next time I'll fail better)
Holy Ghost
Take me home
Sorry if you thought that I could make you whole
♪
Separate from gen pop
A hole to make your myth up
In that shell you picked up
You hear what you wanna hear
'Cause I'll muddy your clean waters then complain about my thirst
Playing chicken with the android, hoping he blinks first
Now its 2 a.m, ATM withdrawal
Old enough to know better, high enough to forget
I don't like my situation but not enough to change it
(Maybe you're just not that interesting)
I walk apart, apart from partners but appreciative of
Being included in the whole, easy to like but hard to love
'Cause their eyes are little mirrors throwing back just what I do
If I won't excel for me, well then I'll excel for you
When the fever breaks
When the buzz is gone (I'll try again)
Take a breath before
Your comfort will bring you down (I'll fail again)
Gotta let it go
Next time will be yours (but next time I'll fail better)
I'll try again
When the fever breaks
When the buzz is gone (I'll try again)
Take a breath before
Your comfort will bring you down (I'll fail again)
Gotta let it go
Next time will be yours (but next time I'll fail better)
You're quite right