Cough up blood, cough up dust

Remember who you can trust

Cough up lungs, cough up smoke

Caged life is just a joke


In a church hall, in a shopping mall

Are the secrets and the pitfalls

Untold stories (void promises)

No one will ever know


Cough up blood, cough up dust

Remember who you can trust

Cough up lungs, cough up smoke

Caged life is just a joke


The ants march in and out of line

Forgetting who they meet, thinking of what they find

Forever running out of time

Marching in and out of line

But I won't let it this time


Cough up blood, cough up dust

Remember who you can trust

Cough up lungs, cough up smoke

Caged life is just a joke

It's a fucking joke


Cough up blood, cough it up

I'm coughing up blood