Chicken Soup for the Damned Lyrics

Summer's done and this engine's running rough

Off this awful twenty-something stuff it's been guzzling for years

I gave a damn but all I am is here

Spiraling in streetlights that expire then disappear

So I think I've gotta go

I think I wanna throw this draft away and start another page

Regroup and re-engage

Time out to rearrange the way that we approach this

Cause there ain't no doubt how quick these days go by

Look inside and try to understand just what's been slipping through our hands

And make the most of it while we can

Still hanging by a strand

Slightly open to new experiences

Conscientious, disagreeable

An ambivert if that's a real word

I'm just a bit high strung from the race I run

In which my aching lungs just can't keep up

So keep it up, keep it up

Push and shove, stumble to the ground

I fell asleep with a song inside my head

Came to, and never ever heard it again

Sure, my words bend but seldom take the shapes of the ones that they set out to be

I'm just the sultan of sleep

Where all bounds rest in peace

Just waking up to shave and clock back in

To this life

Where I've tried so desperately to make a change

But in these dying days I've been shying away

From all the apathy that only holds me in

Cause I'll tell you one thing

I won't go down like a sucker in a sling

Reveling in a choice to reinvent

I've finished wondering just how and when I can pay the rent

Taking control of the tides we're trapped in

I won't be haunting this place like a goddamn Smiths song

Spent too long on the things that were never for me

I'll be flashing my teeth for all the world to see

A weight, a crutch, a state, its clutch

An ache, a song, awake, and it's gone