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 seven these 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 your put 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