There's a world awake outside
with injustice and music and July
with history's arc,
with your family,
with art.
but it don't mean nothing
not to you, not tonight

you can't see past the length of your nose
the biggest problems, well you're sure they're your own
that girl you cut loose
those two friends that cursed you
and all that powder that you can't leave alone
and you say you know
but i know that you don't
cause if you did, you'd really try
if you did, you'd really try to let all that die

so marry yourself to your work
and crowd your confusion with words
then round out your life with some records you like
while you bury your love in the dirt
cause it's endless, the ditch you can dig
you're stubborn, and you're prideful,
and you're all over it
so I suggest you make sense of the time you've got left
so you don't end up back where you've been
back with your black hole
where you don't care who's out there or who knows
cause you're spent and you're sad
cause you've bronzed it, it's your badge
and you've fixed it to all your clothes
every t-shirt and overcoat
so it's with you through hot or cold
but I would tear it from the cloth
grow up and knock it the fuck off