[Verse 1]

Right on the door, the notice post up

Fifteen days so you can vacate

You can live but you can't stay here

No food on the table, no bags for the dead

Aim the arrow at my fucking head

I'd rather be locked up than feel this free, free

[Chorus]

Outstretched hands

Are the ends

Of broken men

To help and hurt

To make things worse

Life is cursed

[Verse 2]

The bars on the windows, the knocks at the door

You're further in debt than you were before

You can live but you can't stay here

The wandering eyes and the nervous twitch

Medications won't scratch the itch

I'd rather be locked up than feel this free, free

[Chorus]

Outstretched hands

Are the ends

Of broken men

To help and hurt

To make things worse

Life is cursed

Outstretched hands

Are the ends

Of broken men

How you gonna learn

When all you do is turn

Your back on us all?

Kick you when you're down

[Bridge]

I don't expect you to understand

These are the terms of the promised land

I don't expect you to understand

These are the terms of the promised land

Promised land, promised land

Promised land, promised land

[Chorus]

Outstretched hands

Are the ends

Of broken men

To help and hurt

To make things worse

Life is cursed

Outstretched hands

Are the ends

Of broken men

How you gonna learn

When all you do is turn

Your back on us all?

Kick you when you're down