When she could drive she struggled to pry The hands of the men she despised She'd given in once and it lasted for a bit and when she escaped she took a nasty hit she was one too many in a hick corridor trying not to end up bad she was doing the best she could with the little life she had She dreamt of the house that she could raise But in her apartment white walls stood in her face All of it felt off something keeping her tethered Without a rich daddy she could never settle She was one too many in a hick corridor Trying not to end up bad She was doing the best she could With the little life she had She was living out her days without minimum wage All the tips she got she could hardly save She was scraping everything off the plate they gave But she couldn't get out of the hole they made None of them knew the kind of world they looked down on Now They're just getting farther from us Never had to worry about how far their car could go Or the bills piling up They told us about a dream that'll grind us to a halt We're either born in or die trying It's an endless loop we're left looking at from the bottom And they really want to see everyone down on their luck She started out struggling like the rest Still to this day she's crawling through the mess All the lines she calls leave her on hold She can't hang up so she's doing what she's told She could never put her faith in a lottery ticket hole She'd rather shoot the driver and tuck and roll No matter how many times she gets tossed out of the ring She'll stagger to the ropes and jump back in She was one too many in a hick corridor Trying not to end up bad She was doing the best she could with the little life she had

Why don't we fight about this We just stare at the screen hiding how we feel And there ain't been nothing on The world's just as cold inside here Some days it would last forever Other days it would all be done in a flash With a light so bright it turned our eyes to dust now I'm running my fingers through a cold pile of ash Sex is all I get from you anymore but the world certainly ain't shaking from the mess we make Sex is all I get from you anymore Outside of that it's just waiting on the sheets to dry for another day We won't do anything about this The children can see right through all of our lies With our christian values fading away It's only our little sins keeping us alive Our minds are in a different place And maybe if we got there we wouldn't be so mean Still we'll warp these feelings we just shared together For the person we'll never meet in our dreams Sex is all I get from you anymore But the world certainly ain't shaking from the mess we make Sex is all I get from you anymore Outside of that it's just waiting on the sheets to dry for another day

You start yourself over from the top You get about half way through and then you stop We whisper words and forget them We struggle everyday with the truth We breathe it out and never let it in And let our boys be rude A creature with nothing inside A TV show misunderstood Well, it's all just a joke the same one you keep telling me And the punchline's a secret and that's what makes it funny Everyone cried when they thought you couldn't make it I never laughed so hard at the abuse You stared at the wall and convinced everyone That we all had it good And when the curtain was drawn you made it seem like A TV show misunderstood I got kicked through the door and brought along the passenger seat I was falling off the bridge and headed back to sleep I caught you lost and placed a nail on your chair But they pulled the rug under when the game got fair And as our eyes meet the crowd sighs with relief Behaving the way that we should And still I flicker through from time to time and there I see A TV show misunderstood Well, they all gather round to read the horror show news Embarrassing one another and never leaving a bruise What they thought was hate and soon they forgot Turned into yesterday's brain rot And from the screen outside looking in They pull out every trick in the book And when the camera cuts to the credit real they leave you guessing with A TV show misunderstood

You better cool it or lose it Because it's driving me up a wall I don't doubt it but I don't want to shout it I can't say I never felt it at all But you go on and on and it tears right through me And I have to hear again today But no matter how many times you tell me you love me I will never feel the same way Listen closely if you notice hopefully My silence says a lot more than you think Don't wanna nudge but I will wink But every time I do I see you blink And here I am another day without the courage to speak And you howl it out without delay But no matter how many times you tell me you love me I will never feel the same way Lost in thought got carried off I missed every single word you said Don't repeat it it's best if you leave it I don't want the sound lingering in my head But there it is you let it slip how could I easily forget When it seems like all you have to say But no matter how many times you tell me you love me I will never feel the same way

The car's in neutral and the road's slightly angled It just took one little push for the wheels to roll There were moments I loved and there were fights we could handle But one day we looked at each other and we just lost control It's been building up some speed but what good will braking do There will still be that distance between me and you I don't need one last look we did all we had to I never needed these mirrors to watch you fall out of view Before I staggered out trying to find the keys to leave We took in the final minute uncertain if time would even turn But as I watched the clock reach the top it sobered me up enough for the road I drove away from our empty world to never return It's been building up some speed but what good will braking do There will still be that distance between me and you I don't need one last look we did all we had to I never needed these mirrors to watch you fall out of view

Ever since you were young you had that look in your eyes a perfect little angel and never told otherwise you kept misery around and every night we heard her whine she had us jumping on the tables and breaking our spines but when the neighbors came knocking she answered with a smile on her face uh oh you've been dragging that dog all over the place It's always in a corner left to waste you keep out your hand she'll try to get a taste uh oh you've been dragging that dog all over the place no one spoke up again cause you never listened to any of us we tried out best to be polite but you were losing our trust never had the heart for a cage and you left to roam the view you came crawling back to the door and we were expecting someone new you thought you did no wrong but you were just getting worse with every mistake uh oh you've been dragging that dog all over the place it's always in a corner left to waste you keep out your hand she'll try to get a taste uh oh you've been dragging that dog all over the place it's been so long since we heard anything about you we've been expecting the worst since there was nothing we could do every dog has it's day we thought years ago you had your last even though you walked with a limp you still somehow remained intact we've been waiting for you to show up in the news for days uh oh you've been dragging that dog all over the place it's always in a corner left to waste you keep out your hand she'll try to get a taste uh oh you've been dragging that dog all over the place

You told them lies that got me in trouble Changed the way they thought for a while I wanted nothing to do with you Every chance you had you popped my bubble You had a tough time but you piled on a struggle I was a mess from what you put me through Every day that I lost it I was wishing you were down a bit more Then I saw you falling I wasn't sure what it was all for But I'm learning to look past those days I'm trying to love if I can just find a way I'm wishing you the best but that might be the best from Though I wish I could reach back in those days Find a moment in time that I could change Shake hands start over again I tried to hold my ground but the wall fell over I let you make some choices when you stood on my shoulder You crawled your way into every dream I had It was strange and sad and with time grew colder Nothing changed but my bitterness got older I was getting out of there before I broke bad I ignore when you call up Pretending I don't hear my phone You ask me why we never talk Every chance you find me alone But I'm learning to look past those days I'm trying to love if I can just find a way I'm wishing you the best but that might be the best from Though I wish I could reach back in those days Find a moment in time that I could change Shake hands start over again I go about my life feeling so much better A knock on my shin or some rainy weather Hardly dampens the mood now since I can think Where I'm at now might not last forever And our ties might not be permanently severed But seeing the thread so bare hooked the final link I woke up one morning Listening to the silence outside And all the miles between us That kept us from destroying our lives But I'm willing to look past those days I'm trying to love if I can just find a way I'm wishing you the best but that might be the best from Though I wish I could reach back in those days Find a moment in time that I could change Shake hands start over again

The sun's coming up the stars are still out I'm falling asleep behind the wheel I try to give myself time by staying up late I hope the weekend will numb the way I feel I don't have my hands in the pockets of the men in charge It seems like the only way you can catch a glance I spend my days driving and working and losing my mind It's starting feel like I couldn't change a thing if I had a chance Yeah we're living in a dystopia and it's taking it's toll And we stand staring at it like idiots and do nothing at all Yeah we're living in a dystopia it's taking everything from me I'm tired of my world being held together by money I wanna see what that could be Yeah we're living in a dystopia I've been doing my ramblin when no one should be I want to find a bed I can call my own Piles of bodies being pushed to the streets Farther than they could ever be from their homes What do you really own when it could all be taken away When you find yourself no longer able to work Retirement plan's locked you down all your Saturday's are gone Then you find yourself packing up your office into the back of a hearse Yeah we're living in a dystopia and it's been that way for a while When they find me for all my unpaid bills they'll just make another pile Yeah we're living in a dystopia and I'm clogged in the drain All the nonsense gets flushed through me every day It's getting hard to hide the pain Yeah we're living in a dystopia You'll be kept alive when your time has passed You'll be alone with a remote in your hand Staring up at the corner at the live world news Worried who will have to pay the bill for you pissing for months in a bed pan Yeah we're living in a dystopia and we know who's in control We stand staring when we could be doing something but they'll push until we fold Yeah we're living in a dystopia and it's spreading all around Though I might not have a chance to ever leave this place I'll do my best to settle down Yeah we're living in a dystopia

People in cars More than the sky has stars Lining up as far As the eye can see In cars forever The only way to get around You have to drive five hundred miles Just to get out of town No one's in charge except the people in cars In our world at large we have to pluck and discard All the terrible people who put the people in cars Who put the people in cars people in cars people in cars people in cars People in cars Driving around like stars In cities designed With everything too far A car centric world And the curbs headed to the dirt Car companies paying up To keep you driving to work Well, no one's in charge except the people in cars In our world at large we have to pluck and discard All the terrible people who put the people in cars Who put the people in cars people in cars people in cars people in cars

This Monday morning's a little different Seems like yesterday just came and went Fixed her up like before I look in the mirror all I see is your door Break down on me one more time All the hustle to here from there Spent so much money without a care The problem's fixed I'm moving on She's running good but something's wrong Break down on me one more time Was never easy being stranded I flagged you down and you came and landed Time went faster than I thought The job was done after we took off Break down on me one more time I'm up the hill now the gear is low The first stop sign and it still wants to go Every time I blamed my luck I'm taking the hardest road but it ain't giving up Break down on me one more time