When the speed kicks in
I go to the store for nothing
And walk right by
The house where you lived with Snow White
I wonder if she ever thought
The storybook tiles on the roof were too much
But from the window, it's not a bad show
If your favorite thing's Dianetics or

Emotional affair
Overly sincere
Smoking in the car, windows up
Crocodile tears, run the tap 'til it's clear
Drift off on the floor
I drag you to the shore
Sweating through the sheets
You're gonna drown in your sleep for sure

Wake up and start a big fire
In o

Walking Scott Street, feeling like a stranger With an open heart, open container I've got a stack of mail and a tall can It's a shower beer it's a payment plan There's helicopters over my head

Walking Scott Street, feeling like a stranger
With an open heart, open container
I've got a stack of mail and a tall can
It's a shower beer it's a payment plan

There's helicopters over my head
Every night when I go to bed
Spending money and I earned it
When I'm lone

I went with you up to
The place you grew up in
We spent a week in the cold
Just long enough to
Walden it with you
Any longer, it would have got old
Singing Ace of Spades when Lemmy died
But nothing's changed, L.A.'s all right
Sleeping in my bed again, and getting

I'm not crazy I'm just nervous I'm on my toes At the edge of the world And my mind feels like an empty room The inside black as coal And it hurts to want something so bad That you lose all self

If you were a teacher, I would fail your class
Take it over and over till you noticed me
If you were a waiting room, I would never see a doctor
I would sit there with my first aid kit and bleed

I want to be the power ballad that lifts you up and holds you down
I wanna be th

If you were a teacher, I would fail your class
Take it over and over till you noticed me
If you were a waiting room, I would never see a doctor
I would sit there with my first aid kit and bleed

I want to be the power ballad that lifts you up and holds you down
I wanna be th

Broke into her house, saw her sitting there
Drinking coke and whiskey in her bra and underwear
Saw him in the kitchen, hanging up the phone
I asked him nicely once to pack his things and go

He gave her a reassuring look, said he wouldn't leave
But I asked him one more time,