Sometimes, just sometimes
Maybe more than some of the time
I'm on a false ego trip
Insecurity is rife
I'm not the ideal person
To be lecturing of life

You call me a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time
I'm ready to cross that fine line

Time can never mend
The careless whispers
Of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye

I might have had a sidekick with a funny name
Runnin' wild through the hills chasin' Jesse James
Ending up on the brink of danger
Ridin' shotgun for the Texas Rangers
Go west young man, haven't you been told?
California's full of whiskey, women and gold

Do you ever get a little bit tired of life
Like you're not really happy but you don't wanna die
Like you're hanging by a thread but you gotta survive
'Cause you gotta survive

This conversation is getting older and older
And I'm not sure that it will ever end
Tell me again, it's not you, it's the situation
Tell me again, it's out of your control

There's nothing better we could do
Than live forever
Well, that's all we've got to do

I've been runnin'
For so long lost sight of myself
It's been a minute since I've seen you
Just called to let you know I'm comin'

Everything felt fine
When I was half of a pair
And through no fault of mine
There's no other half there

This is your life, you can go anywhere
You gotta grab the wheel and own it and drive it like you stole it
Rollin', this is your life, you can be anything
You gotta learn to rock and roll it, you gotta put the pedal down
And drive it like you stole it, and drive it like you stole it

If you could pull the lever to carry on forever
Would your life even matter anymore?
Sure it's a calming notion, perpetual in motion
But it's not what you signed up for

And I'll dream each night of some version of you
That I might not have, but I did not lose
Now you're tire tracks and one pair of shoes
And I'm split in half, but that'll have to do

When it feel like living's harder than dyin'
For me, givin' up's way harder than tryin'
Lauryn Hill said her heart was in Zion
I wish her heart still was in rhymin'

Some people think
That the physical things
Define what's within
And I've been there before
That life's a bore
So full of the superficial

I think of two young lovers running wild and free
I close my eyes and sometimes see
You in the shadows of this smoke-filled room
No telling how many tears I've sat here and cried
Or how many lies that I've lied
Telling my poor heart she'll come back someday

They told me to leave, but I don't wanna leave without you
You're so patient with the animals too
If you give me your keys, I'll go and pick up the soup
Oh, oh, I don't wanna live without you

Made it out alive, but I think I lost it
Said that I was fine, said it from the coffin
Remember how I died when you started walking?
That's my life, that's my life

I sleep like a baby
I never show up late for work
I don't drink whiskey
I don't know how it feels to hurt
Oh, and I ain't been lonely since you said goodbye
Wish I could say I miss you
But you know I never lie

Everybody's feelin' warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight

Been flying solo for so long
Nobody's singing a harmony
Up there just me and my shadow
No base, no guitar, no tambourine

Well, there's people and more people
What do they know, know, know?
Go to work in some high-rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico, ooh, yeah
And there's winners and there's losers
But they ain't no big deal
'Cause the simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills
The pills that kill

I don't need no vacation, no fancy destination
Baby you're my great escape
We could stay at home, listen to the radio
Or dance around the fireplace

I want my money back
But I can't be without you
Stuck behind your beat
I kick my feet up, you're so mean
But I can't dream without you

Know I've never really been the smartest
Yeah I've made my mistakes, my mistakes
You were there when times were at their darkest
Always showing me the way
Lead the way
Your love seems to cut me deep the sharpest

Every whisper, of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool

It's a, it's a bad religion
To be in love with someone who could never love you

A cowboy always finds a way to lead
Drinkin' Jack all by myself

Still too stubborn to show that you care
Watching you lower both your eyes
It hurts when you know it's over
I feel like you never really cared

On borrowed-time rhymes, gassed by the silver screen
They act like their monkey-ass can heal back like Wolverine
Mellow out what y'all bellow out, you got yellow mouth
What happened to the type of spit that used to help a fellow out?