Down and Out Lyrics

The road to recovery gets longer every day

Ten miles back, Jack Kerouac got lost along the way

The doomed headlines of the New York Times

Show there's nothing left to say except who knows

And so it goes

Can anybody tell me what this life is all about

From here to eternity is a rarely-traveled route

So who to trust when the sleep of the just

Is turning around with doubt

The dreamers, like the schemers, are down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

The first note of the rebellion is the Touissant Louverture

The chorus strange of the winds of change make certainty unsure

Either blood will spill or rum will upon the threshing floor

So here's to you, the Haitians true

How amidst the sounds of war did the ballad come about

The righteous sing in whispers as the wretched turn to shout

Then the righteous lift their voices and the wretched turn to doubt

The wretched in their wretched way are down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Nothing good, my virtuous friend, is good enough for me

Except the means of production and Alison Brie

And The Internationale sung in a major key

But it's down and out when it's down to me

Something wicked this way comes the pious puppeteer

Who, as a fact, by the second act, spins the formula of fear

Meanwhile, for each customer, up goes the price of beer

The bottle is dry, but there's still the high

Can anybody tell me what this life is all about

From here to eternity is a rarely-traveled route

So who to trust when the sleep of the just is turning around with doubt

The dreamers, like the schemers, are down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out

Down and out