[Verse 1]

Before it falls into total disarray

You'll have to learn to live a different way

Too late to look back on apocryphal verse

And to be something beyond kinder than words

[Chorus]

This evil spirit, man, it's bringing me down

It tells me not to do the things that I should

It graduated to the back of the bus

They say you let it in when you took the drugs

[Verse 2]

Not up for question, it's not even a thought

Another portrait you can hang on the wall

Dissolve into a state of awful inverse

The truth is not something that you have not heard

[Chorus]

This evil spirit, man, it's bringing me down

It tells me not to do the things that I should

It graduated to the back of the bus

They say you let it in when you took the drugs