Lyrics

10 - Remember When
VERSE 1
I just need a minute for myself
I just need a minute for my health
I need the kind of doctor who works at a bar
And keeps his medicine on the top shelf
I said excuse me, make me this deal
Just leave the bottle
I’ll make it tonight’s meal
There’s a beast in my belly
And I’m trying to drown the motherfucker
So just hit me again
PRE CHORUS
Can I just get another little minute here please?
(You don’t get to choose to be or not to be it’s up to me)
And now you’re quoting Shakesperean soliloquy? Puh-lease
(You can never outrun the beast, get on your knees)
That’s a pretty bit of tyranny
It’s hurting my ability
To follow my proclivities
So can I get a little less hostility please?
CHORUS 1
Remember when your life was easy?
It must have been way back when
Remember when?
VERSE 2
I just need a minute for myself
I just need a minute for my health
I’m drinking spirits drunk with a mean drunk spirit
You see this empty cup? All the fucks I give are in it
You know, where did it all go so
Twisted up, clusterfuck emotional?
I’m both a beast and a burden again
I’ve got my own blood on my own hands
CHORUS
Remember when your life was easy?
It must have been way back when
Remember when? Remember when?
Remember when your life was easy?
It must have been way back when
Remember when? Remember when?

VERSE 3
Don’t matter if it’s how much money made
Or how many eyebrows raised
Or how many things you gave
When you’re approaching middle age
The impossible notion of numbered days
Is brazen, emblazoned upon your face
But finding better ways at this stage
Is a blatant waste of the remaining days
I’m stuck in my ways
And probably won’t change
So for the sake of saving face
Can we skip to the place
Where I’m over the hate and shame
We never speak of it again
Except for this moment of fame
That I cling to insanely
And I wait, and I wait, and I wait
And I wait, and I wait
And I have faith
But the smile on my face is fake
Don’t mistake my distaste
As a punishment for some error that you made
‘Cos it isn’t the case
This hatred hails from a darker place
It’s a rage that comes in waves
And stays for days and days
With no escape and no amazing grace
Wraiths make an alien invasion of my space
Time to erase the disgraceful way
I relate to my mistakes
And my bad breaks
And my head aches
With the weight of the shame
And the pain in my wake
‘Cos nothing is gonna change my ways
Nothing is gonna change my ways
It’s way too late
It’s way too late
CHORUS
Remember when your life was easy?
It must have been way back when
Remember when? Remember when?
Remember when your life was easy?
It must have been way back when
Remember when? Remember when?
OUTRO
And can I get a little less hostility please?
And can I get a little less hostility please?
Can I get a little less hostility please?
And can I get a little less hostility?