Where does the time go to now How do you live with a mountain of doubt Well I ain't gonna fill the visions in your head With a bunch of shit better left unsaid Maybe if I lied hard enough You'd stop being so easy on yourself But the world keeps turning and we do our time So I just toe the line I traded cocaine for whiskey Rowdy friends and women that won't miss me Tell myself I did it for the kids Pretend like I can hide all the things I did Maybe if I lied hard enough You'd stop being so easy on yourself But the world keeps turning and we do our time So I just toe the line I don't suffer grand illusions Wading in Confusion Like the voices in your head Maybe I bought into delusions That I came to some conclusions Just because I kick the dead There's some kind of answers in the still night For questions I never thought I had the right But I tell myself it's a part of another phase For different problems on different days

It was a cold November day Like all of them are around here She was stumbling for something to say Tried to make it clear That's probably when it went up in smoke She knew it was all she wrote Time wasn't on our side And it hadn't been for a long time I was just a bit unscathed Too many vodka doubles that day She don't even have a key to my place And I never really wanted her to stay So it's all right by me If there's one thing I sure can't stand It's when I gotta suck up to the man Pretendin' like I give a damn If he approves of my plans And right now I face a couple stints You wouldn't believe the half of it Well sympathy sure is a bitch When you're down in the ditch And I used to walk around like I owned the place And I thought about the future too I used to think I was invincible Till I was standing in these shoes So It's all right by me I don't wake up and expect to see the sunshine Sometimes I miss the cloudy days too I used to want all the things I didn't deserve But now I just want credit for the time I served So it's all right by me

Are you Alright, Are you alright with this disposition Does it make you cold, always doing what you're told And are you Okay, Are you Okay standing on your own Kind of makes it real, Kind of stings so you know how you feel Well it's one thing to say but another to see And it's one thing to watch and another to believe We are the dreamers who make the dreams done The Jack of All Trades and a Master of None I can tell you today what tomorrow will come But I can't tell you how or where it comes from Did you feel, did you feel this would be different All these choices we make, and some of us are on the take And did you realize, Did you realize there'd be a price Sooner or later we'll all pay, better now than show up late Well it's one thing to say but another to see And it's one thing to watch and another to believe We are the dreamers who make the dreams done The Jack of All Trades and a Master of None I can tell you today what tomorrow will come But I can't tell you how or where it comes from Well it's one thing to say but another to see And it's one thing to watch and another to believe We are the dreamers who make the dreams done The Jack of All Trades and a Master of None I can tell you today what tomorrow will come But I can't tell you how or where it comes from

There's a full tank of gas in the van, show is 85 miles away He was down for adventure he could lose it all, it was the bravest thing he could say I got a bag of shrooms and an ounce of week oughta be enough for the trip And if you start trippin down in Jacksonville well you won't hear the end of it I put a case on the rider and a change of socks club sells pizza by the slice When you're 23 you can eat like shit and still shine up every night There's a lesson in it all, There's a lesson in it all Freedom is just a matter of time and wherewithal There's a function in it all, there's a function in it all Rolling the highway stoned make it to the curtain call There's something in the air, there's something in the air He'll hear you out and consider options but man he just don't care All part of the dream, these cracks are in the seams Everybody's watchin when the band falls in between If the masses come around to hear the bands sound The validation and vindication will beat his daddy down 20 bucks between 'em and the show was alright There's a Holiday Inn they can stay tonight Strippers next door wanna hang with the band Couple rails later and off to never never land The drummer in the pokey cos he went downstairs Told some stooge he could vanish in thin air Busted for moving state line, first offense they let him off with a fine All the sinners coming out tonight Gonna sell a shirt to everyone in sight Boys I seen it and this is the good shit Record labels looking for a big hit Ten shows to go till they point back home Words getting out and the crowds begin to grow The kings of the ant form with the world around ya Pirates in a Chevy doin' what they oughta All part of the dream, these cracks are in the seams Everybody's watchin when the band falls in between If the masses come around to hear the bands sound The validation and vindication will beat his daddy down All in the name of rock and roll All in the name of rock and roll There's gotta be worse ways To sell your soul Days go on seeing double vision All with a lack of supervision Tensions mount, they're meaner than mean Some force of nature to be seen A girl from Ohio had a couple stands Cut her bracelet so she could follow the band Everyone's looking down in the seed Don't talk much cos it burns when he pees They him if he's doing alright Noticed he ain't slept in a couple nights Cocaine here is like coffee black Compared to what we got in Fond Du Lac All the signs point to one road All the stories we were told Look a little bleaker when you live it Yeah Look a little bleaker when you live it All part of the dream, these cracks are in the seams Everybody's watchin when the band falls in between If the masses come around to hear the bands sound The validation and vindication will beat his daddy down All in the name of rock and roll All in the name of rock and roll There's gotta be worse ways To sell your soul

Well I suppose I could admit There's some things I ain't fit To ever be left in charge of And you'd have to be remiss If you didn't tell my missus About the the way the night went down There's versions of the story That understate the glory Of a man drinkin his troubles away Well don't forget which version pays Well it was chaos at its finest A full blown crisis I couldn't make sense of the day So I drank my blues away And there wasn't nothin you could say That would have mattered anyway Was just a bad turn of fate So I learned my lessons I just count my blessins' That he doesn't come down here today There's things that make a man And things we understand That don't get nobody nowhere Sometimes I split the difference Cos two parts can be a hindrance Wasn't quite thinking right Didn't want to start a fight But I guess I did anyway I looked up and saw a swing and a fist with a ring And the next thing I know I was back home Well that'd be the end of the story if it weren't for the morning Cos that's when you came in And you saw me standing there Ah yeah, all right We all got our problems we face at night It's all good, It's okay It don't get me cos it don't matter anyway All them damn faces And all the same places Ever single one plays a part And I bet you would regret If you hadn't left yet When the shit is about to start Well some folks make it hard And some make it easy To tell what they believe But You my friend Would be better off dead Than to practicing what you preach All it's gonna take is The wrong time of day For my to just lose my shit If some punter starts to ask If I'm up to the task Of donatin to his benefit I broke a lotta hearts And a broke a couple bones Fighting for an identify I finally found it when Yeah you'll never guess It was staring right back at me That's the way it goes And that's the way it stays Never really changes here You can care whose elected If you're really that selective But the streets still stay the same So let's have another drink And don't you worry what I think Cos I'm in the same boat as you I'm just here for the ride

Must be a depression setting in I can see that look in your eyes I've gotten to the point it don't phase me now I don't even offer advice Some days are better than others I just take them all in stride Even if I had my druthers I suppose the same rhythm applies Sometimes I lay awake and think about the things I'd have to do These are the days I have to tell myself there's nowhere I'd rather run to Cos there's just some things I can do without The crack in the mirror and the shadow of doubt All the days I wasted whiling away All strange places I never wanted to stay Every time I come here something always ends up sideways Sooner or later you've got to accept you're not getting better each day I thought about taking some time go to coast and figure things out I'd come back with a clear head reap the benefits that'd bring about

Where do ya go when they run ya outta here Where do ya go when all your precious dreams go away Can you catch up with them in another part of town Does the ground on which we stand ever have a say Does it really matter if the scenes change Were we ever really here anyway Where ya gonna go when your luck runs out How you gonna pay the rent on restitution day How you gonna work it out when she won't wait Don't got much use for all this Ain't nobody here practice yoga anyway And all the kings horses And all the kings men Can't put humbolt back together again All the new faces Won't remember when Humbolt park was where all our lives began And all these new diners don't let you smoke Groceries used to be nothin now they run ya broke There's a festival for everybody's pet cause White kid with a man bun telling me what oppression was He's passing out flyers for a lack of a better plan Millennial retribution for breaking down the man They shut down the clinics so there's no room to breathe Between gentrification and the way it used to be You can cross over halsted and see what it was Before Starbucks made it safe said Starbucks made it safe For surburban trust funds to take up the cause

Somewhere between sleep and the morning light Before the hangover wakes up and sets I can almost see where the waves began to break And the currents began to drag me in In the grand scheme When the morning comes It's just another crack at the day And when the sun sets And I'm miles from home There's still some fight that's left in me Somewhere there's a woman who'd say she misses me But she don't know how to find me now

I was already knee deep in a floundering career when I figured out this little town was gonna kill me. It wasn't because of any ill intent, but because the monotony was sucking me dry. I suppose I could have played my cards differently and done the things most college graduates do but my band was steering me elsewhere. I'd grown accustom to living like a pirate and my roommate was an 80's wash up drinking his way through an inheritance that would have lasted a lifetime had his liver been made of leather, as much as his presence was a shackle it was also a crystal ball When your 22 your idea of love is shaped by ideals, it's only when you get a little gristle you realize love is a function you measure when it's down. This realization was a decade away from hitting me so this period was a bastion of bad decision and regret. I rationalized it as rock star posturing knowing full well my story was hardly unique. Flyover states are no short supply of strippers pretending they're living the Dream. You can only dream for so long until the dawn comes and you have to wake up.

Say one of us had suddenly had something to lose Would it change how we live or what we choose The boys back home never gave any ground To real life approaching or what would be going down I can't say the same for me I always knew where I stood To damn wound up to do what I could I wonder if a god above would ever know what it's like To have a man like me be the man in her life Well she makes the best of it like anybody would And I do the best I can to give back half what I took I remember what I was like before the war All the empty promises were all there before Telling tales of freedom and prosperity Where I come from none of that shit is free I tuned in but After a little while you learn to tune it out Just pull the switch for whoever keeps the noise down I used to have opinions about what they put on the air Kids and two jobs later I'm to busy to even care I am like a thorn within I am not just somebody else I am still closing in And I am still playing the hand that I was dealt I am a believer in making my own life no time for destiny I am hard like a stone pretending nothing's free And sometimes she asks if I would like to come to church But the preacher and his hosannas just make my hangover worse There's a storm coming in and I battened down the hatch We'll wait out the worst of it with these things we've become attached I see my little girl and I remember why I can't live forever but I'm still gonna try

Today is the day I stop punching your clock It's the day I set all this anger free Once upon a time I told myself I'd my stock If I just let the small things be But time drags on and the kids grow up Sooner or later the machine will pay When I get home from work I have a drink just To deal with the end of the day I ain't pushing these rocks uphill rocks uphill anymore x2 Been here eleven years and that's a long time they say But they don't say where I'm gonna be in eleven more You bust your ass all day just to chain yourself to the Things you never wanted before It was somewhere between 3 years standing in a ditch And A layover in the south of Ohio I discovered what it means to let things go And get on with embracing the unknown I ain't one to hold a grudge And even if I was Your evicted from my mind There ain't no good to come of ceremony standing So let's just leave the past behind