Pour One Out for Me Lyrics

All roads lead to somewhere

How the hell did I get here?

I'm living in this cop town

And I'm aging in dog years

Through endless cups of coffee

And through buckets of red wine

I've filled up fifty notebooks

With some thirty-thousand lines

I wasted half my twenties

At a job I couldn't stand

When I could have sang and played guitar

in a rock and roll band

Oh, I just keep on sinking

To these depths of misery

So next time you're out drinking

Won't you pour one out for me?

The circumstances led here

I couldn't change them if I tried

My dreams are all deferred

And all my hopes have been died

The oil rigs are burning

And the reservoirs are dry

The rich keep getting richer

And the rest hardly get by

Fix me something strong

And coat the rim with salt and lime

My prospects have been blasted

And the rent won't be on time

Go and tell the barkeep

Pull that bottle from the shelf

So he can pour one out for me

And then a second for yourself

Things have always gone the way

Of endless wars and deadly plagues

The difference only is today

You're wanted to concede

That a couple million lives

Are just fewer mouths to feed

And human extinction

Is all but guaranteed

Human extinction

Is all but guaranteed

Oh, I just keep on sinking

To these depths of misery

So next time you're out drinking

Pour one out for me

And pour a second for yourself

And another seven billion more

For everybody else