Like The Rest Of Us

see i've been here for thirty some years

lookin at myself in the same dirty mirror

so it ain't like i don't comprehend

open that bottle and swallow that friend

no crime to take a little too much

got time to drink away a few months

got a little cocaine habit

but he says he only does it

if somebody else has it

go do that shit do that shit lady

she went vegetarian for the baby

third trimester see the kid kick

she showed me outside

when she gave me a cigarette

shit there's no way to measure it

but not every pony grows up to be a pegasus

you gotta let people be hypocrites

count your blessings and mind your business

stuck with yourself like the rest of us

dirt gets done and then we back to dust

runnin' in place sun in my face

let me fly away heaven won't wait

heaven won't wait let me fly away

getting no way everyday

just tryin to keep my mind on work

it's like

that's the only way to love this life on earth

it's like

everyone takes number one in the race

'cause we all keep running in place

here kitty kitty can't train that fox

must be drinkin' that name brand scotch

all of us cut from the same damn cloth

some of us never cut the price tags off

she ended up on a pole

with her heels pointin'

at a jesus she used to know

stripped down to her naked body

we made her drown in a lake full of patriarchy

and in between the pride and the misery

with an infinite supply of sympathy

are these invisible walls that hold me

like this goldfish bowl is the whole sea see?

stuck with yourself like the rest of us

dirt gets done and then we back to dust

runnin' in place sun in my face

let me fly away heaven won't wait

heaven won't wait let me fly away

getting no way everyday