I've seen the better part of a worse day   I'd crawl out of this hole if I could only change my ways   I've spent some years on bended knees   A thousand kids all share a similar disease   I'll shut em off and go away   I'll live to see another day   With courage garnered from these waves   I throw a record on the table and I feel the strength   Coming back over me   These songs, wreckage from the past keeps me going   I'm down and out of luck and I am praying   I can't hear a word people are saying   I can't hear nothing but these songs   I try to be brave but it's been so long   I need a messenger to tell me that I'm strong   These days the airwaves are filled with lies   And all the charlatans wear the same fucking disguise