Like a Record Player

I'm like a record player

I keep goin' round

With a needle in my arm

Making someone else's sound

And lately I've been dreaming

Of blue and empty skies

But nothing like that ever

Crosses red and weary eyes

I've been traveling with bottles

Working close with cans

Sitting up for hours with my best friends in a van

Now, they say that this ain't living

But I don't know what they mean

Cuz I don't feel dead, and baby, you look alive to me

It's the only game that I know how to play

The time, the time, to say goodbye

Passed us long ago.

And I would say I've overstayed

My welcome but you know

I don't think I'm ever going home

I don't need a doctor

Cuz anyone can see

That I had all of these shots

But, lord, I'm still sick as I can be

I think I need to rest my head

So baby come with me

Lay down here beside me

Keep me warm while I sleep

There's trouble on the way

Huh! You'd best believe

There always is don't worry

Sit and have a drink with me

When we go all we got is these days that we made

And I don't wanna waste them being wistful or afraid

Without all of you I'd be even lower down

You know what I wanna say but I can't get it out

The time, the time, to say goodbye

Passed us long ago.

And I would say we've overstayed

Our welcome but you know

I don't think we're ever going home

I don't think we're ever going home, oh no!