Down on the corner of what I want, and what I tend to get

Day drinking and dreaming of you, I let

The ashtray smoke my last cigarette

Once I had a casual acquaintance with my impending doom

Years ago she promised me some day soon

But how? I've moved from room to room

I ain't been transcending much of nothing

I've been down in it, I ain't free

Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went

Like a life out of me

Clowning on the corner of almost gone but maybe not just yet

There's still a little left to pawn and the bones aren't set

The cast is slack, the plaster's wet

Stepping up the escalator - hell, I am out of here

Past the predetermined terminals of tears

The wings are warm, the runway's clear

But I ain't transcending much of nothing

I've been down in it, I ain't free

Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went

Like a life out of me

Maybe all the world's a hollow recreation, my desperate bretheren

Hallowed blue hallucination we play to win

Put your right foot out, put your right foot in

But it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song

In the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on

And it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song

In the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on

I ain't transcending nothing

I'm still down in it, I ain't free

Weren't no experiment - hell every tear was rent

Like a life out of me

Down on the corner what I want, what I tend to get

Day drinking and dreaming of you, I let

The ashtray smoke my last cigarette