I'm worried 'bout you baby down in your rabbit hole   The evening of our great escape is starting to unfold   Out of bed, sleepy head it's different than you know   Everybody pays as they go      Now pull yourself together, put your chin up off your throat   Now whistle for the dogs and get your sled into the snow   Nothing's ever buried under skull and bones   Everybody pays as they go   Ooh, ooh      The playing field is level but it's ugly down below   It's a devil of a handbook, hi, ho, hi, ho   Now either you're the butcher or the lamb but even so   Everybody pays as they go      The future busted open wide and ran   Like a beehive loaded with sand   You can't go back and see it   The way you saw it then and nobody can   Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh      Look up and see the men returning in their winter coats   Now some of them in one piece and some of them got rolled   And some less than others, some right through the nose   But everybody pays as they go      The young, old, and rich and poor, your mother, she too owes   'Cuz everybody pays as they go   Everybody pays   Yes, everybody pays as they go