I make myself a promise
Then break it every night
I'm feeling loose and life
don't make no sense
I use my brains to
build a fence
'Round the claim I stake
I take the drugs but
the drugs won't take
I took a pledge to grow up
Then drank enough
to make me throw up
On all my dearly
disappointed friends
I'm just too lazy
to make amends
With you anyway
That's why the pattern
still remains
There's half a million
things that
I'm supposed to be
A shelter in the nighttime
A punk running free
And if it gets too deep
I reach for my guitar
And if I try hard
I find something
I can really drop into
And everything that was is
just a thing that I can sing
Everything is something
next to nothing
As crazy as it seems,
you give it up and
you are free
Another candle to blow out
New set of dark thoughts
to shut out
And everybody's got
their remedies
But nothing works
like chemistry
So raise a toast
No more sipping
from the fire hose
There's half a million
things that
I'm supposed to be
A shelter in the nighttime
A punk running free
And if it gets too deep
I reach for my guitar
And if I try hard
I find something
I can really drop into
And everything that was
is just a thing that
I can sing
Everything is something
next to nothing
As crazy as it seems,
you give it up and
you are free
There's half a million things
that you're supposed to be
A virgin in the moonlight
A freak on the scene
And if it gets too deep
You reach for your guitar
And if you try hard
There's half a million things
that I'm supposed to be
A shelter in the nighttime
A punk running free
And if it gets too deep
I reach for my guitar
And if I try hard
There's half a million things
that I'm supposed to be
A shelter in the nighttime
A punk running free
And if it gets too deep
I reach for my guitar
And if I try hard
