Out on the corner of what I want, and what I intend to get

day drinking and dreaming of you, I let

the ashtray smoke my last cigarette



Once I had a casual acquaintance with my impending doom

years ago he promised me some day soon

I'd howl at the moon from room to room



I ain't transcending much of nothing

I've been down in it, I ain't free

Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went

like a life out of me



Clowning on the corner of almost gone but maybe not just yet

there's still a little left to pawn and the bones aren't set

The cast is slack, the plaster's wet



Stepping up the escalator singing hell I am out of here

past the predetermined terminals of tears

the wings are warm, the runway's clear



I ain't transcending much of nothing

I'm still down in it, I ain't free



Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went

like a life out of me



Maybe all the world's a hollow recreation, my desperate bretheren

hallowed blue hallucination we play to win

put your right foot out, put your right foot in



But it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song

in the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on



and it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song

in the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on



I ain't transcending nothing

I'm still down in it, I ain't free

weren't no experiment - hell every tear was ran

like a life out of me



Out on the corner what I want, what I intend to get

day drinking and dreaming of you, I let

the ashtray smoke my last cigarette