Yeah, well there is a shady existence and both you and I are living in it

There's a price that we pay to just get paid

It's a subtle toll creeping on me everyday

So with some apprehension, I comply and realize

That it'd be better to die than waste my time trying to implement change

Now with not much distance there is little resistance to turn 20 in weeks

20 owing money to a university that's doing nothing but putting me to sleep

So I just sleep for days till I wake up with my head in a total haze

It's not a way of life but it sure is safe

Safer than facing the day just to see the reality of the air I used to breathe

But not now I wheeze and heave on air that's no less clean

Still, there's a life I have and keep on pushing on

Convinced there might be something in these songs

No it's nothing commercial, nothing political

It's barely contrived, no it's me telling some kid through a microphone

He might be fucked in the head but he's not alone

"Oh, we've gotta take this slow," I was singing alone, I was singing these songs

Oh won't you take me home?

I'm just seeing stars, I'm just singing those songs