Lottery

Smoke up here's our life regrets, it's what I'm reading on the back of my pack of cigarettes

as I'm cheersin' to the moon with my bottle of wine

that I took home from the liquor store for $5.95

And she throws the bottle back and continues to laugh,

She says remember last December when we saved our cash

and we took it on the road and we decided to lose it,

so we blew it on love, drugs and good music

Times sure have changed but we still have our days

deep inside I knew she wouldn't have it any other way

Well I took too many right turns when I knew they were wrong

Passed out in chairs, stairs and front lawns

Had ample opportunity to get my shit together

and I'm wonderin' when she'll figure out that she can do much better

Askin' when the day will come when she is just gone

said sit up, shut up, play me a song

So I pick up my guitar and I strum her a chord

as I ramble off some lyrics just so she won't get bored

as I'm stumblin; while I'm hoping to find what it's about

and I crack my head wide open this is just what comes out

She's a Lottery and every day's a winning ticket

She's a melody, that you love from start to finish

She's a fantasy, and I don't know why I'm in it

But I know that I can't quit it, no way

She's clappin' to the rhythm as she's starting to bounce

and I notice right behind her that she'll build up a crowd

so she kicks it into to high gear as she gives us a dance

and I watch all the outsiders start to give us a chance

I yell hmmm bop from the top of my lungs

with a don't stop cause I'm having such fun

and I rise up cause the people will come

and then oh my god here go the drums

ground starts to shake with the feel of the beat

and the ( ) everywhere they crowd up the streets

and they're comin out together just to add to the sound

and they bring it out whenever they get up and get down

Jokin, smokin, knowin somethings might be unbroken

Spokin' all the things that I say, and I'm given 'em all away

CHORUS

She's a part of me, such a part of me

Taking everything from the start of me

I'm dancing with her, everything I'm chancing with her, I'm ok

She's in front of me, she's the one to me

Everybody's seen what she's done to me

I'm lost in her mind

Everyone knows I'm just fine