Failure to Communicate Lyrics

Down the hole, shut the grate

Failure to communicate

Learn a lesson, meet your fate

Seems you probably learned too late

Prison bars replace your drapes

A life restrained, you can’t escape

You break the rocks, or cut the locks

And spend a night inside the box

Take a stand, cuz life ain’t planned

You don’t need cards to win the hand

Take my change, I’ll take your soul

And toss you down into the hole

Your life is now in retrospect

Careful, cautious, circumspect

Don’t be bold, check and fold

Your cigarettes have all been sold

The deal is raw, swallow it whole

Your lucky dice will never roll

Take a stand, cuz life ain’t planned

You don’t need cards to win the hand

And if you want to stick around

Just be a fool, keep your head down

Stick it out like a sore thumb

Long enough and you’ll be numb

Hit the ground, beat the hounds

Run em to the edge of town

Play your bluff, break the cuffs

All you’ve got is not enough 

Wanna fly? Have to try

Take a look into my eye

When you do, what you will see

Is yourself and none of me

Take a stand, cuz life ain’t planned

You don’t need cards to win the hand